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 examines the vital role that social software applications play in regards to the cultural definitions by experts and challenges the reader to consider how recent changes in this area influence how we create and distribute knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

1. Back to the future / Nada Dabbagh, Rick Reo -- 2. Understanding Web 2.0 and its implications for e-learning / Tony Bates -- 3. Pedagogy 2.0 / Catherine McLoughlin, Mark Lee -- 4. Learner-generated contexts / Rose Luckin, Wilma Clark, Fred Garnett, Andrew Whitworth, Jon Akass, John Cook, Peter...

"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.

Service-oriented architecture for developing web-based applications for connected government / Muthu Ramachandran, Zaigham Mahmood, Pethuru Raj -- Enhancing data management in e-government using data categorization and visualization techniques / Milos Milutinovic, Marijana Despotovic-Zrakic,...

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 showcases cutting-edge research on the intersections of Semantic Web, collaborative work, and social media research, exploring how the resources of so-called social networking applications, which bring people together to interact and encourage sharing of personal information and...

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 --...