scholarly journals Certified Amplification: An Emerging Scientific Norm and Ethos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Scientific Norm ◽  
Communication Modalities

The Mertonian norms of science were envisioned at a time when scientific communication was relatively centralized and hierarchical. However, Web 2.0 technologies and social media platforms have generated new systemic vulnerabilities by divorcing the certification and amplification of science. This paper argues for certified amplification, a Mertonian-styled norm that enjoins their recoupling, and introduces a taxonomy of strategies institutions have adopted to close the certification-amplification gap. The examples illustrating each taxonomic type collectively paint a picture of an ethos emerging in a decentralized fashion across a heterogeneous range of objects, communication modalities, and institutional contexts.

Potential Power and Problems in Sentiment Mining of Social Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wang ◽  
Qiannong Gu ◽  
Gang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Relative Degree ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sentiment Mining ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Infinite Array

Sentiment mining research has experienced an explosive growth in awareness and demand as Web 2.0 technologies have paved the way for a surge of social media platforms that have significantly and rapidly increased the availability of user generated opinioned text. The power of opinions has long been known and is beginning to be tapped to a fuller potential through sentiment mining research. Social media sites have become a paradise for sentiment providing endless streams of opinioned text encompassing an infinite array of topics. With the potential to predict outcomes with a relative degree of accuracy, sentiment mining has become a hot topic not only to researchers, but to corporations as well. As the social media user base continues to expand and as researchers compete to fulfill the demand for sentiment analytic tools to sift through the endless stream of user generated content, the growth of sentiment mining of social media will continue well into the future with an emphasis on improved reliability, accuracy, and automation.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Knowledge Management Based On Web 2.0 on Social News Site Hipwee

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Mufida Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Content Management ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Online News ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Organizational Participation ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The emergence of various kinds of social media applications does not only affect the way people communicate, but also penetrates into the realm of online mass media. Social media platforms that carry the concept of web 2.0 namely user generated content and network effects make it easy for a news to become viral in a short time, regardless of the validity and accuracy of the news. Web 2.0 itself is a direct application of the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) which emphasizes collaboration and user participation, but in a broader domain, it is slightly different from KM which emphasizes internal organizational participation. Hipwee as one of the social media-based online news sites applies both concepts to its content management. The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent of the application of KM in relation to Web 2.0. The method used to explore data through interviews with Hipwee managers and direct observation to the office location and also the Hipwee site. The results obtained are that the adaptation of the KM concept has not been applied to Web 2.0 on the Hipwee site, namely the concept of data mining, while the Web 2.0 concept has been applied to KM, namely unbounded collaboration, user generated content and network effects.

Creating “(Social) Network Art” with NodeXL

2017 ◽  
pp. 342-393
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Network Graph ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Machine Art ◽  
Social Sharing

If human-created objects of art are historically contingent, then the emergence of (social) network art may be seen as a product of several trends: the broad self-expression and social sharing on Web 2.0; the application of network analysis and data visualization to understand big data, and an appreciation for online machine art. Social network art is a form of cyborg art: it melds data from both humans and machines; the sensibilities of humans and machines; and the pleasures and interests of people. This chapter will highlight some of the types of (social) network art that may be created with Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel (NodeXL Basic) and provide an overview of the process. The network graph artwork presented here were all built from datasets extracted from popular social media platforms (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, and others). This chapter proposes some early aesthetics for this type of electronic artwork.

Likes, retweets, and polarization

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Kaylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Aggressive Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media

A key part of today’s polarized society is the polarized and polarizing world of social media. Although social media platforms bring the potential of more democratic involvement, greater public dialogue, and faster flow of news and information, the dark side of such Web 2.0 platforms also should concern church leaders and theologians. Already-existing polarization in society leads to a polarized use of social media as individuals seek like-minded online communities. Social media, however, also adds to that polarization by providing echo chambers, and features of social media encourage speed over accuracy and more aggressive communication. Three ways in which social media both represents and adds to polarization in politics, society, and churches are balkanization, as people separate into homogenous, polarized communities, the speeding nature of communication that allows inaccurate and overly emotional information to spread, and the flaming that occurs as anonymity and depersonalization of these communication platforms encourage aggressive and even violent rhetoric.

scholarly journals Achieving adoption and effective usage of Web 2.0 among employees within Australian government organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Heikal Husin ◽  
Nina Evans ◽  
Gaye Deegan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Management Technology

Purpose – Ensuring effective usage of Web 2.0 within government organisations is not as straightforward as it seems. The organisations should be aware of a number of issues when implementing Web 2.0 internally. This paper introduces a theoretical model that highlights the importance of management, technology and people issues influencing the level of Web 2.0 usage from an internal perspective. The purpose of this paper was to identify and explore these issues in a government context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) analysis to identify the issues that should be focused on for achieving effective usage of Web 2.0 among government employees. A combination of interviews, surveys and usage data collected from two government organisations was used to gather the data. Findings – The main finding is that, a policy will act as an initial catalyst for culture change and effective usage of Web 2.0 technologies in a government environment. It was also found that it is important to develop an understanding among senior management about the motivation for their employees to utilise Web 2.0 internally. As a result, the proposed theoretical model could assist government organisations in developing effective adoption approaches through identifying their employees’ motivation to adopt Web 2.0 technologies and developing a suitable organisational social media policy. Research limitations/implications – There is the issue of the small number of both qualitative and quantitative respondents within the research. Such limitation is because the research relies solely on the voluntary participation of the employees. This limitation was coupled with the fact that both organisations had different security requirements that had affected the amount and level of feasible information that was accessible to the researchers. Practical implications – This paper extends the understanding of issues applicable to the adoption of Web 2.0 tools from a government organisations’ perspective. The developed theoretical model acts as an adoption guide for organisations to achieve effective Web2.0 tools usage. At the same time, this paper also examines related motivation aspects which higher management should consider while using a new social media or Web 2.0 platform internally. Originality/value – This paper highlights suitable overview approaches for organisations to consider in increasing adoption of Web 2.0 among their employees. This paper also provides an initial foray into identifying other complex issues that may exist within different government organisations in relation to internal technology usage.

Should we be more Social? Law Librarians and Social Media

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Social Law

AbstractThis article by James Mullan is based on his paper delivered to the BIALL Conference 2009. It examines the role that social media and Web 2.0 technologies can play in the life of the legal information specialist.

scholarly journals Real-time tracking and mining of users’ actions over social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-426
Author(s):  
Ejub Kajan ◽  
Noura Faci ◽  
Zakaria Maamar ◽  
Mohamed Sellami ◽  
Emir Ugljanin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Real Time Tracking

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies and social media, companies are actively looking for ways to know and understand what users think and say about their products and services. Indeed, it has become the practice that users go online using social media like Facebook to raise concerns, make comments, and share recommendations. All these actions can be tracked in real-time and then mined using advanced techniques like data analytics and sentiment analysis. This paper discusses such tracking and mining through a system called Social Miner that allows companies to make decisions about what, when, and how to respond to users? actions over social media. Questions that Social Miner allows to answer include what actions were frequently executed and why certain actions were executed more than others.

‘Honey, They Stole My Flickr!’ Social Network Typologies, Online Trust and Dissent, and the Monetisation of Immaterial Labour

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Bagust
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Governance Models

In May 2013, Flickr – one of the first great social media platforms and a pioneer in the use of the digital image as ‘social glue’ – launched a new platform design, unannounced, to its 80 million-plus user community. The changes brought Flickr more into line with newer mobile-focused Web 2.0 competitors, and were arguably inevitable if Flickr's owner, Yahoo, was to persist with the platform. However, the changes elicited a storm of protest from existing Flickr users. The author followed the progress of this ‘revolt’ for a month on Flickr's own user forums, and uses the insights gained to ask questions about current theorising of Web 2.0 platform typologies, their corporate governance and business models, and the apparent quietism of their massive immaterial labour ‘workforces’. The article concludes by asking whether we need to think beyond current Web 2.0 governance models that seem so welded to dichotomies of public and private ownership.

Enhancing Democratic Participation

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Jenny Backhouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Political Campaigning ◽  
Participatory Technologies

The Internet and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have long been seen as potentially contributing to a solution to the problem of voter disaffection and disengagement that has occurred in many western liberal democracies over the past couple of decades. The success of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign in the United States has highlighted the role that ICTs, in the form of Web 2.0 technologies and social media, can play in enhancing citizens‘ democratic participation and involvement in political campaigning. This paper examines the nature of Web 2.0 technologies and social media and analyses their role in political campaigning, particularly in the context of the 2007/8 presidential primaries in America and the 2007 federal election in Australia. While broadcast television is still a dominant political player, the empirical evidence suggests that a viable campaign needs to integrate diverse communication strategies tailored to citizens‘ interests and the political environment. The interactive and participatory technologies of the online world are increasingly key components of such integrated campaign strategies.

Web 2.0 and News 2.0

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Kyle Gibson ◽  
Greg Gomer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
News Source ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Industry

This chapter examines the effects that Web 2.0 technologies have had on traditional news organizations and how those organizations have been forced to adapt their content style, speed of production, and distribution models. It specifically focuses on real-time analytics and how news organizations can utilize new opportunities presented by social media platforms and web usage mining to analyze their audience, the competition, and popular opinions. The chapter will explain in detail how a news organization can compile data from social media and web usage, gain insights from that data, and act upon those insights. To further examine real-time analytics, the chapter presents real examples from BostInno, an online news source, where real-time analytics affected content and distribution. To conclude, the authors will reflect on the impact real-time analytics has on the news industry and how it might affect it in the near future.

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