Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective

Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective

Miltiadis D. Lytras, Robert D. Tennyson, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos

Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 422

ISBN13: 9781599049762|ISBN10: 1599049767|EISBN13: 9781599049779|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925536

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-976-2

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Lytras, Miltiadis D., Robert D. Tennyson, and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, eds. Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-976-2

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Social networks are collections of individuals linked together by a set of relations. The linkage of social networks to people and business contexts as well as to critical government domains is important for the emerging information ecosystems of the knowledge society.

Knowledge Networks: The Social Software Perspective concentrates on strategies that exploit emerging technologies for the knowledge effectiveness in social networks. This comprehensive book delivers an excellent mix of information for readers and is a must for those thirsty for knowledge on social networks and information systems.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

List of Reviewers

Foreword

Chapters

Chapter 1

A Knowledge Strategy Oriented Framework for Classifying Knowledge Management Tools (pages 1-16)

Gianluca Elia

Many classifications and taxonomies of knowledge management tools highlight mainly specific characteristics and features of a single tool, by ignoring the holistic and systematic dimension of the classification, and the explicit...

Chapter 2

Social Software for Bottom-Up Knowledge Networking and Community Building (pages 17-27)

Mohamed Amine Chatti

Recognizing that knowledge is a key asset for better performance and that knowledge is a human and social activity, building ecologies that foster knowledge networking and community building becomes crucial. Over the past few years...

Chapter 3

Weaving a Knowledge Web with Wikis (pages 28-45)

Kevin R. Parker, Joseph T. Chao

This chapter introduces wikis in the context of social software, focusing on their powerful information sharing and collaboration features. It begins by defining the wiki concept and then discussing the evolution of wikis, explaining...

Chapter 4

Media Centric Knowledge Sharing on the Web 2.0 (pages 46-60)

Marc Spaniol, Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao

The success of knowledge sharing heavily depends on the capabilities of an information system to reproduce the ongoing discourses within a community. In order to illustrate the artifacts of a discourse as authentic as possible it is...

Chapter 5

E-Democracy: The Social Software Perspective (pages 61-73)

Pascal Francq

The success of the Internet has launched McLuhan’s idea of the global village. Over the years, the Internet has become a real political medium which has inspired the emergence of the concept of e-democracy. Despite some successful...

Chapter 6

Community and Collaboration Tools to Frame the New Working Environment: The Banking Industry Case (pages 74-86)

Mariano Corso, Antonella Martini, Alessandro Piva

This chapter focuses on the community and collaboration tools as means of creating business communities of practice (CoPs). First, the state-of-the art of these tools is presented with respect to diffusion and usage, and then...

Chapter 7

Who Talks with Whom: Impact of Knowledge Sharing in the Value Network of Born Globals (pages 87-95)

Seppo J. Hänninen, Pekka Stenholm, T. J. Vapola, Ilkka Kauranen

Knowledge sharing has a strong effect on the success of the born globals. The objective of the chapter is to create a better understanding of the impact of knowledge sharing in the value network of born globals. The study builds on...

Chapter 8

Illustrating Knowledge Networks as Sociograms (pages 96-104)

Stefan Hrastinski

This chapter looks at the concept of sociograms that has great illustrative importance in some circumstances, especially for studying small knowledge networks. It is argued that the sociogram approach might be particularly useful for...

Chapter 9

Web 2.0 Collaborative Learning Tool Dynamics (pages 105-130)

Marianna Vivitsou, Niki Lambropoulos, Sofia Papadimitriou, Alexandros Gkikas

Social web asynchronous communication environments provide the space for content creation, idea sharing and knowledge construction within a participatory and collaborative framework that encourages online community establishment and...

Chapter 10

Knowing in Organizations: Pheno-Practical Perspectives (pages 131-150)

Wendelin Kupers

Based on a phenomenological understanding of knowing and knowledge in organisation, this chapter aims to contribute to an integral perspective on conceptual and methodological research development. Adopting an advanced...

Chapter 11

Evaluating the Learning Effectiveness of Collaborative Problem Solving in Computer-Mediated Settings (pages 151-167)

Ourania Petropoulou, Georgia Lazakidou, Symeon Retalis, Charalambos Vrasidas

here is a growing need for systematic evaluations of computer-supported collaborative learning environments. The present chapter focuses on the evaluation of the learning effectiveness of the interactions that take place in...

Chapter 12

Acquiring and Sharing Knowledge Through Inter-Organizational Benchlearning (pages 168-180)

Jeanette Lemmergaard

This chapter introduces inter-organizational knowledge acquisition and sharing as a means to facilitate benchlearning within the field of human resource management. The chapter presents an interactive web-based portal and...

Chapter 13

Virtual Worlds as Environment for Learning Communities (pages 181-198)

Max Senges, Marc Alier

his chapter discusses the potential of three dimensional virtual worlds as venue for constructivist learning communities. To reach a balanced answer to the question whether virtual worlds are likely to evolve into satisfying...

Chapter 14

Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Management (NRM) Gateway: Communities “in” Practice (pages 199-216)

Bonnie F. Bryson

This chapter describes the development of a knowledge management-based website that serves a community of practice within a federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Management Community of Practice. Content...

Chapter 15

A Complex Adaptive Systems-Based Enterprise Knowledge Sharing Model (pages 217-236)

Cynthia T. Small, Andrew P. Sage

This paper describes a complex adaptive systems (CAS)-based enterprise knowledge-sharing (KnS) model. The CAS-based enterprise KnS model consists of a CAS-based KnS framework and a multi-agent simulation model. Enterprise knowledge...

Chapter 16

Facilitating E-Learning with Social Software: Attitudes and Usage from the Student's Point of View (pages 237-256)

Reinhard Bernsteiner

This article explores how social software tools can offer support for innovative learning methods and instructional design in general, and those related to self-organized learning in an academic context in particular. In the first...

Chapter 17

Enlivening the Promise of Education: Building Collaborative Learning Communities Through Online Discussion (pages 257-279)

Kuldip Kaur

An important dimension in education is interaction, that is, the coming together of a number of people to discuss, debate, and deliberate about issues of common concern. In distance education, such social environments are as much...

Chapter 18

Towards an Integrated Model of Knowledge Sharing in Software Development: Insights from a Case Study (pages 280-307)

Karlheinz Kautz

This article adds to the discussion on knowledge management (KM) by focusing on the process of knowledge sharing as a vital part of KM. The article focuses on the relationship between knowledge, learning, communication, and...

Chapter 19

E-Collaboration and E-Commerce in Virtual Worlds: The Potential of Second Life and World of Warcraft (pages 308-319)

Ned Kock

Virtual worlds can be defined as technology-created virtual environments that incorporate representations of real world elements such as human beings, landscapes and other objects. Recent years have seen the growing use of virtual...

Chapter 20

Socializing a Knowledge Strategy (pages 320-350)

Peter H. Jones

Proponents of the resource-based view of strategic management have argued for processes that align organizational knowledge resources to business strategy. In this view, a unique competitive advantage accrues from accelerating...

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