Handbook of research on social software and developing community ontologies

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Hatzipanagos, Stylianos, 1963-, Warburton, Steven.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Online social networks > Research.; Social networks > Research.; Internet > Social aspects > Research.; Collaborative tagging systems; Developing community ontologies; Distributed learning environments; Emergence of agency in online social networks; Enterprise social software; Folksonomological reification; Information literacy; Knowledge media tools; Mobile information system; Online spiritual communities; Open education programs; Pedagogy 2.0; Personal knowledge management skills; Social life in cyberspace; Social media interactivity; Social navigation; Social networking and schools; Social software for e-learning; Social software in higher education; Student blogging activities in higher education; Transliteracy; User-experience of Web contents; Virtual competencies; Web logs in higher education
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"This book explores how social software and developing community ontologies are challenging the way we operate in a performative space"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. How the Crowd Can Teach
• 2. Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice
• 3. Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace
• 4. Weblogs in Higher Education
• 5. Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
• 6. Social Cognitive Ontology and User Driven Healthcare
• 7. Social Identities, Group Formation, and the Analysis of Online Communities
• 8. The Emergence of Agency in Online Social Networks
• 9. Exploiting Collaborative Tagging Systems to Unveil the User-Experience of Web Contents: An Operative Proposal
• 10. The Roles of Social Networks and Communities in Open Education Programs
• 11. Distributed Learning Environments and Social Software: In Search for a Framework of Design
• 12. Exploring the Role of Social Software in Higher Education
• 13. Identifying New Virtual Competencies for the Digital Age: Essential Tools for Entry Level Workers
• 14. Social Structures of Online Religious Communities
• 15. Living, Working, Teaching and Learning by Social Software
• 16. Supporting Student Blogging in Higher Education
• 17. Blogs as a Social Networking Tool to Build Community
• 18. A Model for Knowledge and Innovation in Online Education
• 19. Using Social Software for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• 20. The Potential of Enterprise Social Software in Integrating Exploitative and Explorative Knowledge Strategies
• 21. Personal Knowledge Management Skills for Lifelong-Learners 2.0
• 22. Reconceptualising Information Literacy for the Web 2.0 Environment
• 23. Pedagogical Responses to Social Software in Universities
• 24. Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning
• 25. A Critical Cultural Reading of YouTube
• 26. The Personal Research Portal
• 27. Ambient Pedagogies, Meaningful Learning and Social Software
• 28. Interactivity Redefined for the Social Web
• 29. Transliteracy as a Unifying Perspective
• 30. Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education
• 31. Destructive Creativity on the Social Web: Learning through Wikis in Higher Education
• 32. Presence in Social Networks
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index.