Editors:
- Covers cutting edge research topics of utmost real-world importance in the specific domain of social networks
- Addresses what leads to participation and effective collaboration in online communities
- Presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Annals of Information Systems (AOIS, volume 15)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Online communities are among the most obvious manifestations of social networks based on new media technology. Facilitating ad-hoc communication and leveraging collective intelligence by matching similar or related users have become important success factors in almost every successful business plan.
Researchers are just beginning to understand virtual communities and collaborations among participants currently proliferating across the world. Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration covers cutting edge research topics of utmost real-world importance in the specific domain of social networks. This volume focuses on exploring issues relating to the design, development, and outcomes from electronic groups and online communities, including:
- The implications of social networking,
- Understanding of how and why knowledge is shared among participants,
- What leads to participation, effective collaboration, co-creation and innovation,
- How organizations can better utilize the potential benefits of communities in both internal operations, marketing, and new product development.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This new book is as an excellent interdisciplinary source of comprehensive knowledge and literature topics related to virtual communities, social networks, and collaboration. It is highly recommended to all librarians, information scientists, social network analysts, researchers, social activists, policymakers, legislators, social decision makers and various professionals due to professional discussions about technical problems of technology application and social issues arising from it. … The writing style of this book is clear, fluent and almost easy to understand. Explanations are adequately meaningful and comprehensible.” (Elaheh Hossseini and Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh, Webology, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2013)
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece
Athina A. Lazakidou
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration
Editors: Athina A. Lazakidou
Series Title: Annals of Information Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3634-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3633-1Published: 21 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3634-8Published: 20 June 2012
Series ISSN: 1934-3221
Series E-ISSN: 1934-3213
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), IT in Business, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences