How Web 2.0 Shapes Patient Knowledge Sharing

2016 ◽  
pp. 2123-2145
Author(s):  
Chiara Libreri ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Patient Knowledge ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Psychosocial Perspective

Web 2.0 has totally changed the health communication world. In particular, it has reconfigured peer exchanges about health. These exchanges are important because they allow knowledge sharing and construction between patients, in particular chronic patients. Although their importance is well established, this field of study brings together a variety of theories not uniformly shared or understood. It is not clear how patients use Web for knowledge processes: what kind of knowledge processes happen in Web 2.0 between patients? How does Web 2.0 sustain or impede these processes? The aim of this research is to map virtual exchanges about diabetes in Italy by developing a systematic exploration of Web using the main search engines (Google, Yahoo) and analyzing the site that hosts posts and exchanges about diabetes. According to a psychosocial perspective, findings highlight the main features of online knowledge processes among patients.

How Web 2.0 Shapes Patient Knowledge Sharing

2016 ◽  
pp. 1390-1411
Author(s):  
Chiara Libreri ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Patient Knowledge ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Psychosocial Perspective

Web 2.0 has totally changed the health communication world. In particular, it has reconfigured peer exchanges about health. These exchanges are important because they allow knowledge sharing and construction between patients, in particular chronic patients. Although their importance is well established, this field of study brings together a variety of theories not uniformly shared or understood. It is not clear how patients use Web for knowledge processes: what kind of knowledge processes happen in Web 2.0 between patients? How does Web 2.0 sustain or impede these processes? The aim of this research is to map virtual exchanges about diabetes in Italy by developing a systematic exploration of Web using the main search engines (Google, Yahoo) and analyzing the site that hosts posts and exchanges about diabetes. According to a psychosocial perspective, findings highlight the main features of online knowledge processes among patients.

How Web 2.0 Shapes Patient Knowledge Sharing

2013 ◽  
pp. 238-260
Author(s):  
Chiara Libreri ◽  
Guendalina Graffigna
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Patient Knowledge ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Psychosocial Perspective

Web 2.0 has totally changed the health communication world. In particular, it has reconfigured peer exchanges about health. These exchanges are important because they allow knowledge sharing and construction between patients, in particular chronic patients. Although their importance is well established, this field of study brings together a variety of theories not uniformly shared or understood. It is not clear how patients use Web for knowledge processes: what kind of knowledge processes happen in Web 2.0 between patients? How does Web 2.0 sustain or impede these processes? The aim of this research is to map virtual exchanges about diabetes in Italy by developing a systematic exploration of Web using the main search engines (Google, Yahoo) and analyzing the site that hosts posts and exchanges about diabetes. According to a psychosocial perspective, findings highlight the main features of online knowledge processes among patients.

Realism 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 663-679
Author(s):  
Augusta Rohrbach
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

This chapter looks to the future of teaching realism with Web 2.0 technologies. After discussing the ways in which technologies of data modeling can reveal patterns for interpretation, the chapter examines how these technologies can update the social-reform agenda of realism as exemplified by William Dean Howells’s attempted intervention into the Haymarket Riot in 1886. The advent of Web 2.0 techologies offers students a way to harness the genre’s sense of social purpose to knowledge-sharing mechanisms to create a vehicle for political consciousness-raising in real time. The result is “Realism 2.0,” a realism that enables readers to engage in their world, which is less text-centric than it was for previous writers.

Impact Evaluation of Customer Knowledge Process on Customer Knowledge Expansion

2014 ◽  
pp. 919-931
Author(s):  
Samer Alhawari
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Knowledge Application ◽  
Customer Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Knowledge Codification

The article aim is to investigate how Customer Knowledge Processes used in practice by Jordanian banks to achieve customer knowledge expansion. The empirical study is based on a sample of the data collected from 165 respondents, drawn randomly from six banks. The results show that the seven selected factors (Customer Knowledge Codification, Customer Knowledge Representation, Customer Knowledge Sharing, Customer Knowledge Application, Design of Customer Knowledge, Execution of Knowledge from Customer, and Verify of Knowledge from Customer) have a significant impact on Customer Knowledge Expansion. The findings did reveal the potential relationship between the customer knowledge processes and customer knowledge expansion. It also provides advice for the Information Technology (IT) Industry as to how an analytical knowledge process from customers should be taken into account in developing countries to attain proper customer knowledge expansion because of cultural, social and educational disparities.

Enhancing Citizens' Participation via Recommender Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 624-650
Author(s):  
Luis Terán
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Government Services

With the introduction of Web 2.0, which includes users as content generators, finding relevant information is even more complex. To tackle this problem of information overload, a number of different techniques have been introduced, including search engines, Semantic Web, and recommender systems, among others. The use of recommender systems for e-Government is a research topic that is intended to improve the interaction among public administrations, citizens, and the private sector through reducing information overload on e-Government services. In this chapter, the use of recommender systems on eParticipation is presented. A brief description of the eGovernment Framework used and the participation levels that are proposed to enhance participation. The highest level of participation is known as eEmpowerment, where the decision-making is placed on the side of citizens. Finally, a set of examples for the different eParticipation types is presented to illustrate the use of recommender systems.

From E-Commerce to V-Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
To Come ◽  
Business To Business

This introductory chapter provides an overview of e-commerce marketing focused on history, trends and future predictions for the field – leading into the development and application of virtual worlds and v-commerce. It begins with a discussion of the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Next is a survey of developments in marketing convergence, as businesses integrate their customer-centric online/offline marketing efforts and databases. The chapter continues with an overview of business-to-business Internet marketing, including the profit strategies businesses employ in the online world. A commentary on the evolution of browsers, portals and search engines is followed by a discussion of social networking’s movement toward a money-making model. To set the stage for the chapters to come, the piece concludes with a preview of what is on the horizon for “v-commerce” – with opportunities and applications that are capturing the imagination of consumers and marketers alike.

Twin Wiki Wonders? Wikipedia and Wikibooks as Powerful Tools for Online Collaborative Writing

2011 ◽  
pp. 1078-1097
Author(s):  
Meng-Fen Grace Lin ◽  
Curtis J. Bonk ◽  
Suthiporn Sajjapanroj
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Shed Light

Web 2.0 technologies empower individuals to contribute thoughts and ideas rather than passively survey online content and resources. Such participatory environments foster opportunities for community building and knowledge sharing, while encouraging the creation of artifacts beyond what any single person could accomplish alone. In this chapter, we investigate the emergence and growth of two of such environments: the highly popular Wikipedia site and its sister project, Wikibooks. Wikipedia has grown out of trends for free and open access to Web tools and resources. While Wikipedians edit, contribute, and monitor distinct pieces of information or pages of documents, Wikibookians must focus on larger chunks of knowledge, including book modules or chapters as well as entire books. Several key differences between these two types of wiki environments are explored. In addition, surveys and interviews, conducted with Wikibookians, shed light on their challenges, frustrations, and successes.

Hotels Pricing at Travel Search Engines

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Anastasios A. Economides ◽  
Antonia Kontaratou
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Price Analysis

Web 2.0 applications have been increasingly recognized as important information sources for consumers, including the domain of tourism. In the center of the travelers’ interest is the use of these applications in order to compare and choose hotels for their accommodation at various tourism destinations. It is important to investigate the issues related to the presence of the hotels on some of the most dominant tourism search engines and to the prices that they present. This paper compares the search engines and determines whether the cheapest and to the most complete one can be discovered. This paper focuses on analyzing the hotel prices presented on their official websites and on the following eight tourism search engines: Booking.com, Expedia.com, Hotelclub.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz.com, Priceline.com, Travelocity.com, and Venere.com. The data analysis, by the use of the descriptive statistics, showed that only 23% of the hotels examined are found at all the search engines. Furthermore, the price analysis showed that there are differences among the search engines. Although some search engines statistically give lower prices, there is not a single search engine that always gives the lowest price for every hotel.

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