scholarly journals Modus operandi of Communities of Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsánna E. Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Tremendous Importance ◽  
Geographic Regions ◽  
Share Information

The changes in technology and the advancements of the World Wide Web have resulted in a different way in which people interact, and locate, and share information. Virtual communities connect people from different geographic regions and allow for the exchange of ideas among a broader range of professional. Communities of Practice, despite their recent conception, have gained tremendous importance in educational settings. This paper will present the types of COPs (virtual and face-to-face), pointing out the characteristics of both. It will discuss the advantages and disadvantages and propose a merged model drawing on the advantages of both. Special attention will be laid on the issue of ‘trust’, as a building block of the successful cooperation between the members of the COPs.

Virtual Communities on the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 1040-1046
Author(s):  
Abhijit Roy
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S

With the advent of the Internet a little over a decade ago, technology has enabled communities to move beyond the physical face-to-face contacts to the virtual realm of the World Wide Web. With the advent of highways in the 1950s and 1960s, communities were created in suburbia. The Internet, on the other hand, over the last fifteen years, has enabled the creation of a myriad of virtual communities that have limitless boundaries around the entire globe.

Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Rheingold
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
User Experience ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The World ◽  
Conferencing System

Reprinted from legendary cyberspace pioneer Howard Rheingold's classic, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, “Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place” situates the reader in the context of social media before the World Wide Web. Rheingold narrates how he became involved in The WELL community; details community and personalities on The WELL; and documents user experience with the WELL's conferencing system, including how conversations are created and organized and how social media compares to face to face dialog. Rheingold also explores social media-based dialog in terms of reciprocity; “elegantly presented knowledge”; the tradition of conversation in the Athenian agora; and the value of freedom of expression. Introduced by Judy Malloy.

Trust in Virtual Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Luis V. Casaló ◽  
Carlos Flavián ◽  
Miguel Guinalíu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Concept ◽  
E Mail

Individuals are increasingly turning to computermediated communication in order to get information on which to base their decisions. For instance, many consumers are using newsgroups, chat rooms, forums, e-mail list servers, and other online formats to share ideas, build communities and contact other consumers who are seen as more objective information sources (Kozinets, 2002). These social groups have been traditionally called virtual communities. The virtual community concept is almost as old as the concept of Internet. However, the exponential development of these structures occurred during the nineties (Flavián & Guinalíu, 2004) due to the appearance of the World Wide Web and the spreading of other Internet tools such as e-mail or chats. The justification of this expansion is found in the advantages generated by the virtual communities to both the members and the organizations that create them.

Impact of Chinese Culture Values on Knowledge Sharing Through Online Communities of Practice

2009 ◽  
pp. 1101-1114
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Alexandre Ardichvili ◽  
Martin Maurer ◽  
Tim Wentling ◽  
Reed Stuedemann
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Multinational Organization ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
Online Communities Of Practice ◽  
High Degree

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how national (Chinese) cultural factors influence knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities of practice at a large U.S.-based multinational organization. The data in this study come from interviews with the company’s employees in China, and managers who are involved in managing knowledge-sharing initiatives. The study results suggest that overall the influence of the national culture could be less pronounced in online knowledge sharing than what the literature has suggested. Although Chinese employees’ tendency to draw sharp distinctions between in-groups and out-groups, as well as the modesty requirements were barriers to knowledge sharing online, the issue of saving face was less important than expected, and attention paid to power and hierarchy seemed to be less critical than what the literature indicated. A surprising finding was that in the initially assumed collectivistic Chinese culture, the high degree of competitiveness among employees and job security concerns seem to override the collectivistic tendencies and are the main reasons for knowledge hoarding. The reasons for unexpected findings could be associated with differences between face-to-face and online knowledge sharing environments, the influence of the company’s organizational culture, and the recent rapid changes of the overall Chinese cultural patterns.

Internet Regulation and Online Censorship

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Koumartzis ◽  
Andreas Veglis
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Democracies

This paper explores the development of Internet regulation policies worldwide since the birth of the World Wide Web, describes the advantages and disadvantages of the main filtering methods in use today, and presents two of the most important Internet Regulation Systems (IRS) implemented in authoritarian regimes and Western democracies around the globe. Moreover, the authors propose the conduction of well-designed surveys worldwide in order to measure Internet User's opinion and use such results as a starting point for developing a fair “Internet Regulation System” (fair IRS) in the future. Last, the authors introduce a new online tool for conducting related surveys, www.WebObserver.net project.

HTML5 and the Mobile Web

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Curran ◽  
Aaron Bond ◽  
Gavin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Uniform Solution

Accessing the Web from mobile devices is a popular practice. Trends show that the mobile space is becoming the method through which many consumers access content – both through native and web applications. These applications have expanded the browsing experience, but have also complicated the development process. A need exists for a simple, uniform solution which HTML5 is attempting to address. HTML is a mark-up language, now on its fifth edition, used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Because of the large increase in users of mobile devices, internet access on these devices is widely used. The creation of web sites, web documents, and applications are done with HTML5, as it is compatible with both PC and mobile device browsers. However, with its lengthy development process, it is not yet apparent if HTML5 can incorporate the demands of developers in a changing environment. This paper provides an overview of the use of HTML5 in structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web and compatibility issues on mobile browsers, key features, tool’s, and the advantages and disadvantages on the mobile web devices as well as the state of the mobile web.

Social Computing and Social Software

2009 ◽  
pp. 93-121
Author(s):  
Ben Kei Daniel
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Discussion ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web is one of the most profound technological inventions of our time and is the core to the development of social computing. The initial purpose of the Web was to use networked hypertext system to facilitate communication among its scientists and researchers, who were located in several countries. With the invention of the Web came three important goals. The first was aimed at ensuring the availability of different technologies to improve communication and engagement. The second goal was to make the Web an interactive medium that can engage individuals as well as enrich communities’ activities. The third goal was for the Web to create a more intelligent Web, in addition to being a space browseable by humans. The Web was developed to be rich in data, promoting community engagement, and encouraging mass participation and information sharing. This Chapter describes general trends linked to the development of the World Wide Web and discusses its related technologies within the milieu of virtual communities. The goal is to provide the reader with a quick, concise and easy way to understand the development of the Web and its related terminologies. The Chapter does not account for a more comprehensive analysis of historical trends associated with the development of the Web; neither does it go into a more detailed technical discussion of Web technologies. Nonetheless, it is anticipated that the materials presented in the Chapter are sufficient to provide the reader with a better understanding of the past, present and future accounts of the Web and its core related technologies.

Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Chen ◽  
S.M. Hinton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
The World

This paper outlines the adaptation of in-depth interviewing using World Wide Web-based interviewing software between the interviewer and their subject. Through a structured, realtime interviewing process the researcher is able to use the Internet to facilitate communication, recording interviews directly to a file without incurring the costs associated with traditional face-to-face or telephone interviews. The benefits of this approach are the ability of the researcher to conduct inexpensive interviewing over distances and elimination of transcription costs from the research process, allowing the researcher to undertake a wider range of interviews than may be possible on a limited budget. The interview method has problems associated with the depth of material available from this approach, the loss of paralinguistic cues and the limited size of the available sample, limitations that must be accounted for by any researcher considering using the approach.

Semantic Community Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 875-880
Author(s):  
Ina O’Murchu ◽  
Anna V. Zhdanova ◽  
John G. Breslin
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Or Organization

Many virtual communities have surfaced and come together on the World Wide Web. Web-based community portals serve as a one-stop place for all information needs serving a group of users that have common interests. As organizations become highly dynamic and the people that join them become more geographically dispersed, the need for improved ways to share and distribute data and information amongst the community or organization members has increased dramatically.

INCREASING THE AUTONOMY OF DELIBERATIVE AGENTS WITH A CASE-BASED REASONING SYSTEM

2003 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. CORCHADO ◽  
R. LAZA ◽  
L. BORRAJO ◽  
J. C. YAÑES ◽  
M. VALIÑO
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
The World ◽  
Case Based

This paper shows how deliberative agents can be built by means of a case-based reasoning system. The concept of deliberative agent is introduced and the case-based reasoning model is presented. Once the advantages and disadvantages of such agents have been discussed, it will be shown how to solve some of their inconveniences, especially those related to their implementation and adaptation. The World Wide Web has emerged as one of the most popular vehicle for disseminating and sharing information through computer networks; a distributed agent-based solution for e-business, in which such agents have been used, is also presented and evaluated in this paper.

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