scholarly journals Users In The 'Golden' Age Of The Information Society

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mijke Slot ◽  
Valerie Frissen
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
End Users ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Online Services ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Web

In the Web 2.0 era it no longer holds to think of users as ‘end-users’, as they have moved to the heart of the value chain. They have become important actors in virtually all elements of online services. In this paper we shall explore these innovative roles of users and reflect on the future impacts of this shift. To support our claims about the innovative roles of users, we have analyzed 150 Web 2.0 services into more detail. In this paper we shall argue that Web 2.0 may be understood as a first sign of what Perez has labelled ‘societal re-engineering’ and ‘creative destruction’. However, as we are still at the beginning of what Perez describes as a potential golden age of the information society, there are also still major uncertainties about the future of the web and the potential impacts this may have. At this point in time it is far from sure whether we are indeed approaching a ‘golden age’ of technological development. To explore the future roles of users, in the final part of the paper we shall therefore also highlight some future aspects from the perspective of changing user-producer relations.

Gaining a Past, Losing a Future: Web 2.0 and Internet Historicity

2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Allen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
The Web

This article explore how, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the internet became historicised, meaning that its public existence is now explicitly framed through a narrative that locates the current internet in relation to a past internet. Up until this time, in popular culture, the internet had been understood mainly as the future-in-the-present, as if it had no past. The internet might have had a history, but it had no historicity. That has changed because of Web 2.0, and the effects of Tim O'Reilly's creative marketing of that label. Web 2.0, in this sense not a technology or practice but the marker of a discourse of historical interpretation dependent on versions, created for us a second version of the web, different from (and yet connected to) that of the 1990s. This historicising moment aligned the past and future in ways suitable to those who might control or manage the present. And while Web 3.0, implied or real, suggests the ‘future’, it also marks out a loss of other times, or the possibility of alterity understood through temporality.

Networked Knowledge Workers on the Web

2014 ◽  
pp. 1843-1863
Author(s):  
Toni Ferro ◽  
Mark Zachry
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Office Location ◽  
The Web

With the growing popularity of online services that allow individuals to consume and contribute Web content with social groups of self-selected affiliates, the socio-technical geography of the Web has become increasingly complex. To map some of this space in a productive way for organizations and online researchers, we focus our attention on a particular segment of Web 2.0 services, publicly available online services (PAOSs) used for work purposes. After defining this segment and its relationship to other kinds of online services, we report the results of an annual survey that looks at who is using such PAOSs for work as well as the nature of that work. As our survey results indicate, how often PAOSs are used for work differs depending on the company size and office location of individuals. To frame our findings, we differentiate among the multiple PAOSs that respondents report using by classifying them as different genres of services, which we find provides a productive typology for understanding such services and their roles in organizations.

Mix, Match, Rediscovery

2010 ◽  
pp. 2298-2309
Author(s):  
Justin Meza ◽  
Qin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
Enterprise Mashups ◽  
The Web

Knowledge is the fact or knowing something from experience or via association. Knowledge organization is the systematic management and organization of knowledge (Hodge, 2000). With the advent of Web 2.0, Mashups have become a hot new thing on the Web. A mashup is a Web site or a Web application that combines content from more than one source and delivers it in an integrated way (Fichter, 2006). In this article, we will first explore the concept of mashups and look at the components of a mashup. We will provide an overview of various mashups on the Internet. We will look at literature about knowledge and the knowledge organization. Then, we will elaborate on our experiment of a mashup in an enterprise environment. We will describe how we mixed the content from two sets of sources and created a new source: a novel way of organizing and displaying HP Labs Technical Reports. The findings from our project will be included and some best practices for creating enterprise mashups will be given. The future of enterprise mashups will be discussed as well.

The MACE Approach for Caching Mashups

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Al-Haj Hassan ◽  
Lakshmish Ramaswamy ◽  
John Miller
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
End Users ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
The Web

In recent years, Web 2.0 applications have experienced tremendous growth in popularity. Mashups are a key category of Web 2.0 applications, which empower end-users with a highly personalized mechanism to aggregate and manipulate data from multiple sources distributed across the Web. Surprisingly

E-Learning 2.0

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa M. Regueras ◽  
Elena Verdú ◽  
María A. Pérez ◽  
Juan Pablo de Castro ◽  
María J. Verdú
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Web

Nowadays, most of electronic applications, including e-learning, are based on the Internet and the Web. As the Web advances, applications should progress in accordance with it. People in the Internet world have started to talk about Web 2.0. This chapter discusses how the concepts of Web 2.0 can be transferred to e-learning. First, the new trends of the Web (Web 2.0) are introduced and the Web 2.0 technologies are reviewed. Then, it is analysed how Web 2.0 can be transferred and applied to the learning process, in terms of methodologies and tools, and taking into account different scenarios and roles. Next, some good practices and recommendations for E-Learning 2.0 are described. Finally, we present our opinion, conclusions, and proposals about the future trends driving the market.

Networked Knowledge Workers on the Web

2012 ◽  
pp. 942-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Ferro ◽  
Mark Zachry
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Office Location ◽  
The Web

With the growing popularity of online services that allow individuals to consume and contribute Web content with social groups of self-selected affiliates, the socio-technical geography of the Web has become increasingly complex. To map some of this space in a productive way for organizations and online researchers, we focus our attention on a particular segment of Web 2.0 services, publicly available online services (PAOSs) used for work purposes. After defining this segment and its relationship to other kinds of online services, we report the results of an annual survey that looks at who is using such PAOSs for work as well as the nature of that work. As our survey results indicate, how often PAOSs are used for work differs depending on the company size and office location of individuals. To frame our findings, we differentiate among the multiple PAOSs that respondents report using by classifying them as different genres of services, which we find provides a productive typology for understanding such services and their roles in organizations.

The MACE Approach for Caching Mashups

2012 ◽  
pp. 261-284
Author(s):  
Osama Al-Haj Hassan ◽  
Lakshmish Ramaswamy ◽  
John Miller
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
End Users ◽  
Range Queries ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Indexing Scheme ◽  
Improve Efficiency ◽  
Cache Placement ◽  
Benefits And Costs ◽  
Placement Technique ◽  
The Web

In recent years, Web 2.0 applications have experienced tremendous growth in popularity. Mashups are a key category of Web 2.0 applications, which empower end-users with a highly personalized mechanism to aggregate and manipulate data from multiple sources distributed across the Web. Surprisingly, there are few studies on the performance and scalability aspects of mashups. In this paper, the authors study caching-based approaches to improve efficiency and scalability of mashups platforms. This paper presents MACE, a caching framework specifically designed for mashups. MACE embodies three major technical contributions. First, the authors propose a mashup structure-aware indexing scheme that is used for locating cached data efficiently. Second, taxonomy awareness into the system is built and provides support for range queries to further improve caching effectiveness. Third, the authors design a dynamic cache placement technique that takes into consideration the benefits and costs of caching at various points within mashups workflows. This paper presents a set of experiments studying the effectiveness of the proposed mechanisms.

Managing Expectations

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Coldwell-Neilson
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
First Century ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Student Expectations ◽  
Tertiary Student ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

Expectations of, and by, students and staff in the classroom have been well researched. Yet, still there is a gap between the expectations of students and what they experience in their studies. The classroom itself is changing with the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies into the mix. Further changes are being driven by the changing profile of a tertiary student in the twenty first century. Education will not fulfill its goal if the gap in expectations is not addressed. The discrepancy in expectations is explored from the perspective of students and staff and strategies for bridging the gap and enhancing eLearning in the Web 2.0 environment are offered. The chapter begins with a scenario that demonstrates the issues and concludes with suggestions to avoid them in the future. In doing so, the key drivers of change in the learning landscape in Australia are identified and the impact these may have on staff and student expectations is explored.

scholarly journals Information Society: European Strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erma Ivoš
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
Eastern European Countries

In this essay the author analyses and put some questions concerning the European Strategy document on Information Society and technological development. As the document mainly considers the needs and the future trends highly-developed European countries the question is whether this document can be applicable to the Eastern European countries.

scholarly journals Information Culture and Web 2.0

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolande Maury
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Web

From the observation of school librarians’ usual practices in three secondary schools in Paris (2006-2009), with an ethnographic approach, the aim of this study is to better define the information culture, in particular which kinds of knowledge are necessary to learn, live and evolve in the information society context. Thus, the study points up that the web 2.0, in order to be an educational tool, needs an accompanied digital conduct. New training needs appear, characterized by the emergence of new knowledge (digital identity, traceability, informative survey...) and the reconfiguration of some others (information ethics, indexing, mediation, authority, intellectual property, relevance…).

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