Virtual community practices and social interactive media technology lifecycle and workflow analysis /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Akoumianakis, Demosthenes, 1966-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Online social networks > Case studies.; Internet > Case studies. > Social aspects; Community-oriented workflow information systems; New media and social practice; Social interactive media; Social TV; Social visualization; Sustainable e-learning communities; Virtual communities of practice; Virtual community practices in e-health; Virtual knowledge commons
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

In recent years, virtual communities have attracted the attention of scientists and researchers across a variety of disciplines as the cross-disciplinary nature of the field creates the potential for a wider impact than initially intended or anticipated. This book provides an analysis of virtual com...

Table of Contents:

• New Media, Communities, and Social Practice: An Introductory Tutorial / Demosthenes Akoumianakis
• Conditions and Key Success Factors for the Management of Communities of Practice / Edurne Loyarte, Olga Rivera
• The Search for 'Hidden' Virtual Communities of Practice: Some Preliminary Premises / Richard Ribeiro, Chris Kimble
• The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry for CoP: The Virtual Enterprise's Emergent Knowledge Model / Kam Hou VAT
• The Role of Participatory Design in Constructing the Virtual Knowledge Commons / Natalie Pang
• The 'Social Experience Factory' and the Fabrics of Collaboration in Virtual Communities of Practice / Demosthenes Akoumianakis
• Social TV: Building Virtual Communities to Enhance the Digital Interactive Television Viewing Experience / Evangelia Mantzari, George Lekakos, Adam Vrechopoulos
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Visualization within Virtual Communities / Diana Schimke, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler
• GRIDS in Community Settings / Ioannis Barbounakis, Michalis Zervakis
• Socializing in an Online Gaming Community: Social Interaction in World of Warcraft / Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Henry Been Lirn Duh
• Social Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services / Stelios Sfakianakis
• Virtual Community Practice Toolkits Using 3D Imaging Technologies / George Triantafyllidis, Nikolaos Grammalidis, Dimitiros Tzovaras
• Using Activity Theory to Assess the Effectiveness of an Online Learning Community: A Case Study in Remote Collaboration Using a 3D Virtual Environment / Theodor G. Wyeld, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland
• Interaction, Imagination and Community Building at the Math Forum / Wesley Shumar
• Designing Practice-Oriented Interactive Vocabularies for Workflow-Based Virtual CoP / Demosthenes Akoumianakis ... [et al.]
• Developing User Interfaces for Community-Oriented Workflow Information Systems / Josefina Guerrero García, Jean Vanderdonckt, Juan Manuel González Calleros
• Virtual Communities in Health and Social Care / Manolis Tsiknakis
• Research Communities in Context: Trust, Independence, and Technology in Professional Communities / Dimitrina Dimitrova, Emmanuel Koku
• Enabling Virtual Music Performance Communities / Chrisoula Alexandraki, Nikolas Valsamakis
• Sustainable E-Learning Communities / Chris Stary
• Cross-Organization Virtual CoPs in E-Tourism: Assembling Information-Based Products / Nikolas Vidakis ... [et al.]
• Social Interactive Media and Virtual Community Practices: Retrospective and an R&D Agenda / Demosthenes Akoumianakis.