"This book is a definitive reference source for timely scholarly research evaluating the impact of social networking platforms on a variety of relationships by featuring expansive coverage on a range of topics relating to social media applications and uses across industries"--Provided by publisher.

Das Internet ermöglicht es Ideensuchenden, eine mehr oder weniger spezifische Aufgabe in Form eines offenen Online-Aufrufs an eine (un-)bestimmte Anzahl potenzieller Problemlösender zu richten. Die besten Ideen werden ausgewählt und in der Regelbelohnt. Mitunter ist es die Crowd selbst,...

"This book highlights the successes of community wireless networks but also boldly addresses the potential risk factors and broader socioeconomic concerns, exploring previous successes and failures, various designs, and potential challenges with CWNs"--Provided by publisher.

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...

Who this handbook is for -- Understanding media development: a key part of governance reform -- Grasping the fundamentals: the building blocks of an independent media sector -- Getting from assessment to program concept: a tool for political economy analysis -- Getting from concept to design:...

"This book brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society including law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and...

Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality'

Introduction: Knowledge Management, Arts and Humanities: Setting the Scene -- Arts and Humanities in Knowledge Management: Clay Workshop as a Method for Recognising and Creating Individual Knowledge -- Understanding and Fostering Collective Ideation: An Improvisation-based Method -- What Can...

1. Introduction and summary -- 2. World-wide-welfare : a micro-economic analysis of "The new economy" -- 3. Network formation, innovation and IT use -- 4. Adoption and diffusion of e-business and the role of network effects -- 5. Radio spectrum fees as determinants of market structure : the...