Challenging educational expectations of the social web: a web 2.0 far?

Managers are increasingly interested in the social web, as it provides numerous opportunities for strengthening and expanding relationships with customers, but the network processes that lead to these user-based assets are poorly understood. In this paper, the authors explore factors influencing use and participation in virtual social networks. They also discuss unusual drivers and inhibitors present with virtual social networks—highlighted by the presence of positive network externalities and fears that the content will be misused. The authors offer hypotheses stemming from a model of how these factors work together, test the model with a dataset collected from two different virtual social networks, and discuss the implications of this work. The findings offer managers insights on how to nurture Web 2.0 processes.

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Scientometrics 2.0: New metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v15i7.2874 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 140

Author(s):

Jason Priem ◽

Bradely H. Hemminger

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Social Web ◽

Social Bookmarking ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Comprehensive List ◽

Potential Value ◽

Scholarly Impact ◽

The Social

The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation-based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of articles' impact. This paper develops the most comprehensive list of these services to date, assessing the potential value and availability of data from each. We also suggest the next steps toward building and validating metrics drawn from the social Web.

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Society on the Web

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0004 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael Thelwall

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Search Engines ◽

Personal Information ◽

Link Analysis ◽

Social Web ◽

Government Information ◽

News Websites ◽

The Social ◽

Web Use ◽

The Web

This chapter, which argues that the structure of the Web reflects the offline world, making it a valuable lens for exploring society, introduces the theories and issues which make general observations about the Web and then provides examples of investigations into particular topics, such as academic web use. The Web offers unique entrée to free information from Wikipedia to news websites and from government information portals to search engines. Moreover, the two broad approaches to investigating society on the Web are reported, which are based around link analysis and Web 2.0 investigations. Web 2.0 has spawned broad research to probe its effect on several aspects of society. The publishing of personal information on the Web, particularly on the social web, appears likely to continue and expand.

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