Computer-Mediated Social Networking

1. Front Matter

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2. Virtual Environments and Second Life

   1. Designing Physical and Virtual Communities

      • Mark McGuire

      Pages 1-6

   2. Virtual Experience: Observations on Second Life

      • Clare Atkins

      Pages 7-17

   3. Second Life: The Future of Social Networking?

      • Malcolm Shore, Qinglan Zhou

      Pages 18-27

   4. Building Content in Second Life – Issues Facing Content Creators and Residents

      • Patricia S Crowther, Robert J Cox

      Pages 28-34

   5. A Review of Linden Scripting Language and Its Role in Second Life

      • Robert J Cox, Patricia S Crowther

      Pages 35-47

3. Knowledge Networks and Learning in Social Networks

   1. Embedding Professional Knowledge: The ‘Middle Layer’ in an Online Community Ecosystem

      • Jocelyn Cranefield, Pak Yoong

      Pages 48-61

   2. Fostering Sociability in Learning Networks through Ad-Hoc Transient Communities

      • Peter B. Sloep

      Pages 62-75

   3. Inter-organisational Knowledge Transfer and Computer Mediated Social Networking

      • Silke Retzer, Pak Yoong

      Pages 76-85

   4. SME Knowledge Transfer through Social Networking: Leveraging Storytelling for Improved Communication

      • Fa Martin-Niemi, Richard Greatbanks

      Pages 86-92

   5. Computer-Mediated Social Networking for Mentoring of Health Professionals

      • Sarah Stewart

      Pages 93-99

4. Applications and Integration of Social Networking Systems

   1. The Use of Digital Photo Frames as Situated Messaging Appliances

      • John Downs, Beryl Plimmer

      Pages 100-105

   2. Awareness Information for Collaborative Information Gathering in Social Bookmarking Service

      • Piyanuch Klaisubun, Masahiro Honma, Phichit Kajondecha, Takashi Ishikawa

      Pages 106-118

   3. Towards the Integration of Social Media with Traditional Information Systems

      • Michael Rees, Peta Hopkins

      Pages 119-133

   4. Data in Social Network Analysis

      • Anu Vaidyanathan, Malcolm Shore, Mark Billinghurst

      Pages 134-149

5. Social Concepts Associated with Social Networking

   1. Self-organization in Simulated Social Networks

      • Tania G. Leishman, David G. Green, Sheree Driver

      Pages 150-156

   2. A Social Networking Approach to F/OSS Quality Assessment

      • Anas Tawileh, Omer Rana, Steve McIntosh

      Pages 157-170

   3. Eliciting Expectations for Monitoring Social Interactions

      • Michael Winikoff, Stephen Cranefield

      Pages 171-185

6. Conference Summary

   1. Computer-Mediated Social Networking - An Executive Summary of the Conference and the Future Research Directions

      • Melanie Middlemiss

      Pages 186-200

7. Back Matter

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This volume constitutes the revised selected papers of the First International Conference, ICCMSN 2008, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in June 2009. The 19 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on virtual environments and second life; knowledge networks and learning in social networks; applications and integration of social networking systems as well as social concepts associated with social networking.

• 2nd life
• Frames
• collaboration
• data mining
• information gathering
• knowledge
• learning
• online learning
• self-organization
• virtual communities
• virtual environments
• web services
• web syndication
• web2.0

• Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

  Maryam Purvis, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

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