multiple writers. Wiki is a platform for collaborative writing in the Web 2.0 era. This paper's aim is to focus on the many … distribution, and asynchronous distribution) and with two writing tools (a wiki web site and MS Word). Findings – Compared to the … significant effect on document length. Satisfaction is significantly higher with wikis than with MS Word in both distributed …

, secondary school, and university students in the process of developing their wiki-based CW projects. Both qualitative and … quantitative data were obtained from analyzing the revision histories and the content of wiki pages. Findings – Results indicated …. Originality/value – Research to date is still lacking an in-depth knowledge about the processes and activities involved when …

Purpose Social network sites have been widely adopted by politicians in the last election campaigns. To increase the … algorithms require a set of manually labeled texts for training, which is typically unavailable in real life situations. To … parties. Findings The authors found that when a political tendency classifier is trained and tested on data in the same corpus …

preferences and practices is warranted in future and ongoing research. Originality/value – This is the first review of ASNSs to …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring … environments, and in particular, Wikis using social network measures. Design/methodology/approach – A social network model for … articles belonging to the same topic using a web crawler, in order to evaluate the outcome of the social network measures in …

information sharing behaviours are explored with the goal of determining their usefulness in conceptualising virtual communities … virtual communities. This framework also acknowledges the affective contexts in which virtual communities operate. Practical … build theory that attempts to explain phenomena observable in virtual communities. Originality/value – In contrast to models …

Purpose – Social relations play an important role in a real community. Interaction patterns reveal relations among …/methodology/approach – In this study extraction of relations between a pair of firms is obtained by using a search engine and text processing … coefficient. Findings – As an application, a network of 60 firms in Japan is extracted including IT, communication, broadcasting …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to improve the egocentric search speed for important documents in neighbouring … bloggers in a blog space, and these relations reflect bloggers' interests. Therefore, the ability to search documents in linked … blogs is significant for bloggers. An egocentric search method is proposed to search for documents in such neighbouring …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the news is discussed in social network web sites … September 2006 to February 2007 using a heuristic designed to detect news discussions. In addition, a comparative link and page ….g. Typepad and Blogger) is presented. Findings – The text analysis suggests that news plays little role in most Windows Live …

written in, or judged by, standard linguistic norms and may cause special problems for information retrieval. Originality …/value – This is the first large‐scale study of language in social network comments.  …