Web 2.0 Concepts, Social Software and Business Models

2010 ◽  
pp. 1183-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthes Fleck ◽  
Andrea von Kaenel ◽  
Miriam Meckel
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions

This article provides an overview of the most prominent definitions, basic concepts and applications of the term Web 2.0. In addition to the seven principles outlined by O`Reilly, this article will investigate Anderson’s long tail concept, issues of transparency and the effects of an interconnected user base on E-Business. Later, the focus will shift from the concepts of Web 2.0 towards the social software applications of this new Web era. Blogs, social network sites, wikis, folksonomies and virtual worlds will be explained and their (potential) relevance to e-business will be outlined. The article closes with a brief discussion about the future research directions of Web 2.0 for successful E-Business.

Representing and Sharing Tagging Data Using the Social Semantic Cloud of Tags

2010 ◽  
pp. 519-527
Author(s):  
Hak-Lae Kim ◽  
John G. Breslin ◽  
Stefan Decker ◽  
Hong-Gee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
The Social

Social tagging has become an essential element for Web 2.0 and the emerging Semantic Web applications. With the rise of Web 2.0, websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become extremely popular. These sites allow users to categorize and browse content using tags (i.e., free-text keyword topics). However, the tagging structures or folksonomies created by users and communities are often interlocked with a particular site and cannot be reused in a different system or by a different client. This chapter presents a model for expressing the structure, features, and relations among tags in different Web 2.0 sites. The model, termed the Social Semantic Cloud of Tags (SCOT), allows for the exchange of semantic tag metadata and reuse of tags in various social software applications.

Representing and Sharing Tagging Data Using the Social Semantic Cloud of Tags

2010 ◽  
pp. 1788-1796
Author(s):  
Hak-Lae Kim ◽  
John G. Breslin ◽  
Stefan Decker ◽  
Hong-Gee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Social Tagging ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
The Social

Social tagging has become an essential element for Web 2.0 and the emerging Semantic Web applications. With the rise of Web 2.0, websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become extremely popular. These sites allow users to categorize and browse content using tags (i.e., free-text keyword topics). However, the tagging structures or folksonomies created by users and communities are often interlocked with a particular site and cannot be reused in a different system or by a different client. This chapter presents a model for expressing the structure, features, and relations among tags in different Web 2.0 sites. The model, termed the social semantic cloud of tags (SCOT), allows for the exchange of semantic tag metadata and reuse of tags in various social software applications.

Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: A view from the periphery

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092096201
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodriguez-Medina ◽  
Hebe Vessuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions

Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an understudied topic. Even less has been the interest in connecting such bonds with the internationalization of careers and knowledge. In this article, the authors aim at filling this gap by studying what role personal bonds have played in the internationalization of the social sciences in Latin America. They identify factors that affect personal bonds as well as translations that scholars produce to capitalize on these ties. The most relevant of such translations, academic mobility, has to be interpreted, from a peripheral standpoint, as operating within a logic of leveling, a process that highlights structural asymmetries in the global social sciences. The authors describe both dimensions of this process and, in the concluding section, offer some policy implications and future research directions.

scholarly journals An Initial Investigation of the Generalization of a School-Based Social Competence Intervention for Youth with High-Functioning Autism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Schmidt ◽  
Janine P. Stichter ◽  
Kristin Lierheimer ◽  
Stephanie McGhee ◽  
Karen V. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
High Functioning Autism ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Expression Recognition ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
School Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Impact

This study evaluated the impact of generalization of the Social Competence Intervention-Adolescent (SCI-A) curriculum in a school setting for individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome (). This study examined to what degree the generalization of the SCI-A curriculum could be measured when delivered in a school setting. Across the six participants preliminary results suggest improvement on teacher reports of social skills and executive functioning. Some improvements were also evident in direct measures of facial-expression recognition. Data collected in the nonintervention settings indicated that some generalization of social interaction skills may have occurred for all six participants. Future research directions are discussed.

scholarly journals COMPUTER-ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE WRITING AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF GOOGLE DOCS AND WIKIS: A REVIEW PAPER

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Husam Masaoud Alwahoub ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi ◽  
Mohammad Halabieh
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Future Research Directions

Computer-assisted collaborative writing has been gradually employed in L2 and FL contexts due to the introduction of Web 2.0 applications and tools (i.e., Google Docs and wikis) and its benefits in developing learners’ writing skills. Accordingly, extensive literature that dealt with computer-assisted collaborative learning and learners’ perceptions towards this activity has been condensed on shelves by time passing. Thus, a review of former studies over the recent decade is called forth aiming to ameliorate the difficulties of reaching this literature and to awaken broadened knowledge in this promising area. This paper reviewed and discussed about 40 relevant articles published from 2011 to 2019 that dealt with computer-assisted collaborative writing using Web 2.0 tools, precisely Google Docs and wikis, and learners’ perceptions towards this activity (computer-assisted collaborative writing) and tools. All the articles were selected according to specific criteria, where only a true collaborative writing peer-reviewed articles were selected. After that, two main themes were synthesized: (a) collaborative writing outcomes and (b) students’ perceptions, and specific research components in relation to each theme were further reviewed and summarized using illustrative tables. Drawing on the review of this literature, the researchers discuss pedagogical implications in terms of technology integration and writing development and address future research directions including systematically reviewing this topic with teachers’ perceptions of computer-assisted collaborative writing.

scholarly journals Social Information Retrieval and Recommendation: state- of-the-art and future research

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 27 - 2017 - Special... ◽  
Author(s):  
Abir Gorrab ◽  
Ferihane Kboubi ◽  
Henda Ghézala
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Information ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Recommendation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Source Of Information

The explosion of web 2.0 and social networks has created an enormous and rewarding source of information that has motivated researchers in different fields to exploit it. Our work revolves around the issue of access and identification of social information and their use in building a user profile enriched with a social dimension, and operating in a process of personalization and recommendation. We study several approaches of Social IR (Information Retrieval), distinguished by the type of incorporated social information. We also study various social recommendation approaches classified by the type of recommendation. We then present a study of techniques for modeling the social user profile dimension, followed by a critical discussion. Thus, we propose our social recommendation approach integrating an advanced social user profile model. L’explosion du web 2.0 et des réseaux sociaux a crée une source d’information énorme et enrichissante qui a motivé les chercheurs dans différents domaines à l’exploiter. Notre travail s’articule autour de la problématique d’accès et d’identification des informations sociales et leur exploitation dans la construction d’un profil utilisateur enrichi d’une dimension sociale, et son exploitation dans un processus de personnalisation et de recommandation. Nous étudions différentes approches sociales de RI (Recherche d’Information), distinguées par le type d’informations sociales incorporées. Nous étudions également diverses approches de recommandation sociale classées par le type de recommandation. Nous exposons ensuite une étude des techniques de modélisation de la dimension sociale du profil utilisateur, suivie par une discussion critique. Ainsi, nous présentons notre approche de recommandation sociale proposée intégrant un modèle avancé de profil utilisateur social.

Online Word-of-Mouth Reviews

2014 ◽  
pp. 1689-1697
Author(s):  
Jing Huo ◽  
Qinglong Gou ◽  
Qi Dai ◽  
Zhimin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Online Word Of Mouth ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Online word-of-mouth (WOM) has received significant research attention as the Internet has rapidly developed. Owing to specific Internet platforms such as consumer reviews sites and social network sites, online WOM spreads much more quickly and widely than traditional WOM, and that phenomenon ultimately makes online WOM play a key role in a consumer's purchase decision. In this chapter we present an overview of previous research on online WOM to facilitate future research in this area. In this review, previous researches are divided into three streams, i.e., (1) the effectiveness of online WOM, (2) the valence of online WOM, and (3) the antecedents and consequences of online WOM. Also, two possible future research directions are suggested at the end the chapter.

Marketing Orientation Embedding Internet Capability as Best Practice for Medium-Sized Global Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-135
Author(s):  
Maria Giovanna Tongiani ◽  
Claudia Burchielli
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Marketing Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
The Web

Contemporary competition in the distribution sector is becoming increasingly more cut-throat and consumers have multiple channels to choose from for making their purchases, each with different characteristics and practical methods. The objective of this work is to obtain information and identify the elements that allow for highlighting the ability of the medium-sized retailers who use the web and the social media to expand their own reference markets. The information will be acquired by means of interviews with Italian and international (USA and UK) customers of a medium Italian global fashion retailer. The analyses of the results will provide useful indications concerning the marketing activities for the medium retailer firms operating in the global market. This approach is followed by future research directions and a conclusion.

Adult Learning and Virtual Worlds Simulations

2010 ◽  
pp. 252-261
Author(s):  
Michele D. Estes ◽  
Randell Snow
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Dissonance ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Intellectual Skills

This chapter will explore conditions for meaningful adult learning and explain how virtual environments and in-world simulations enable or discourage the development of intellectual skills in adults. Adult learners possess particular characteristics that should influence instructional designs. Issues that affect learning in the real-world are also found in the virtual world. Particular problems of cognitive and cultural dissonance in the virtual environment, finding and creating meaningful simulations, and protecting the fidelity of authentic simulations in a public space are discussed. Recommendations and future research directions are provided.

Business Models and Organizational Processes Changes

2011 ◽  
pp. 192-205
Author(s):  
Helena Halas ◽  
Tomaž Klobucar
Keyword(s):  
Pervasive Computing ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Main Stress ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Future Business

This chapter explores the influence of pervasive computing on companies and their businesses, with the main stress on business models. The role of business models for companies is presented. Introduction to pervasive computing and a survey of existing e-business models classifications are used as a base for our research. The main characteristics of today’s business models are discussed and a method for evaluating business models characteristics is proposed. We concentrate on characteristics of pervasive computing and their influence on companies’ business processes and business models. The present and future business characteristics and business models are briefly compared, and future research directions on pervasive computing and business models are presented.

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