This book addresses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to the cutting-edge fields of online health and medical study. This compilation disseminates the latest findings in this growing area of research in order to transform, both socially and technologically, the way...

"This book explores various individual user-driven strategies that assist in solving multiple clinical system problems in healthcare, using social networking to improve their healthcare outcomes"--Provided by publisher.

Review of the consumer perspective framework for healthcare applications / Eh Eh Tin, Elizabeth Cummings, Elizabeth Borycki -- Success dimensions of the online healthcare communities of practice: towards an evaluation framework / Haitham Alali, Juhana Salim -- Incorporating usability testing...

"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on a new platform of business models and explores the relationship between the new Business 2.0 alliance and Web 2.0"--Provided by publisher.

This book discusses the new aspects of digital watermarking in a worldwide context. Approached not only from the technical side, but the business and legal sides as well, it discusses digital watermarking as it relates to many areas of digital media. Broad in its approach, the book provides a...

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...

Section 1. Network Communities and Second Language Learning -- 1. Criteria for the Implementation of Learning Technologies -- 2. Communicative Networking and Linguistic Mashups on Web 2.0 -- 3. Output-Oriented Language Learning With Digital Media -- 4. Infoxication 2.0 -- 5. The Role of...

This book provides readers with information on the various linguistic, cultural, technological, legal, and other factors that affect interactions in online exchanges and includes information that implements effective decisions related to the uses and designs of online media when interacting with...

"This book examines the production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge within networked communities in the wider global context of pervasive Web 2.0 and social media services"--Provided by publisher.