Very little has been written to address the emerging trends in social software and technology. With these technologies and applications being relatively new and evolving rapidly, research is wide open in these fields. This book fills this critical research need, providing an overview of the...

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...

"This book investigates the effects of Web technologies and social media on interaction and the political process helping readers to use Web technologies to address local and global problems and improve systems of governance, social equity, economic activity, sustainability, service delivery,...

"This book brings together research on the multi-faceted nature and overarching impact of social technologies on the main opportunities and challenges facing today's post-secondary classrooms, from issues of social capital formation to student support and recruitment"--Provided by publisher.

1. Exploring a professional social network system to support learning in the workplace / Anthony "Skip" Basiel, Paul Coyne -- 2. Knowledge producing megamachines : the biggest Web 2.0 communities of the future / Laszlo Z. Karvalics -- 3. Web 2.0 driven sustainability reporting / Daniel Süpke,...

"This book presents new concepts regarding reliability, availability, manageability, performance, scalability, and secured-ability of applications, particularly those that run over the Web. It examines causes of failure in Web-based information system development projects, and indicates that to...

The implementation of a University 2.0 model / Domenico Consoli -- Using social media as a concept and tool for teaching marketing information systems / Theodosios Tsiakis -- The use of new web-based technologies in strategies of teaching gender studies / Madalina Manolache, Monica Patrut --...

"This book addresses the question of whether or not information has become a commodity and examines how infonomics and the "business of free" have changed the way companies must create and market their information to make it most accessible and valuable for their consumers"--Provided by publisher.

"This book compiles the latest empirical research findings in the area of e-learning and knowledge management technologies assessment, highlighting specific comparisons and practices of e-m-learning and knowledge management technologies"--Provided by publisher.