Social computing theory and practice interdisciplinary approaches /

"This book offers a holistic approach to social computing with respect to the underlying theory, technology and mechanisms, as well as the challenges, opportunities and impact of social computing to any application area"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Papadopoulou, Panagiota, 1975-, Kanellis, Panagiotis, 1967-, Martakos, Drakoulis, 1947-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From information technology to social technology / Benjamin Yeo
  • 2. Harness the wisdom of crowds / Aaron Shen, Matthew Lee, Christy Cheung
  • 3. Using theoretical frameworks from the social sciences to understand and explain behaviour in social computing / Jacqui Taylor
  • 4. Cultural and international aspects of social media / Thomas Mandl
  • 5. Social contexts in an information rich environment / Gbolahan Williams, Iman Poernomo
  • 6. Social computing / Chaka Chaka
  • 7. Using Web 2.0 social computing technologies to enhance the use of information systems in organizations / Jean Pelet
  • 8. Enhancing productivity through social computing / J. Sánchez, Omar Valdiviezo
  • 9. Social networks and semantics / Ioan Toma ... [et al.]
  • 10. Constructing and evaluating social software / Christopher Douce
  • 11. Advanced multimodal frameworks to support human-computer interaction on social computing environments / Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Angelo Spognardi
  • 12. A social relational network-based architecture for maintaining the media integrity and optimizing the quality of experience / Harilaos Koumaras ... [et al.]
  • 13. Social computing and the new market / Jason Caudill
  • 14. From real to virtual and back again / Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein
  • 15. Viral marketing via social networking sites / Ranadeva Jayasekera, Thanos Papadopoulos.