Interrelationships Between Professional Virtual Communities and Social Networks, and the Importance of Virtual Communities in Creating and Sharing Knowledge

2010 ◽  
pp. 1595-1616
Author(s):  
Fernando Garrigos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Creation

This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play a crucial role in the creation and sharing of knowledge. The chapter begins by outlining how virtual communities are gaining importance in the new environment. It explains what we understand as a professional virtual community and its importance and also the relevance of social networks in today’s Knowledge Management age. The study then analyses how the development of social networks is crucial to the improvement of professional virtual communities, and also how virtual organizations can promote the improvement of social networks. Finally, the study examines how virtual communities are vital as mechanisms for creating and sharing knowledge.

Interrelationships Between Professional Virtual Communities and Social Networks, and the Importance of Virtual Communities in Creating and Sharing Knowledge

2011 ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Fernando Garrigos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Creation

This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play a crucial role in the creation and sharing of knowledge. The chapter begins by outlining how virtual communities are gaining importance in the new environment. It explains what we understand as a professional virtual community and its importance and also the relevance of social networks in today’s Knowledge Management age. The study then analyses how the development of social networks is crucial to the improvement of professional virtual communities, and also how virtual organizations can promote the improvement of social networks. Finally, the study examines how virtual communities are vital as mechanisms for creating and sharing knowledge.

Interrelationships Between Professional Virtual Communities and Social Networks, and the Importance of Virtual Communities in Creating and Sharing Knowledge

2010 ◽  
pp. 1674-1696
Author(s):  
Fernando Garrigos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Creation

This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play a crucial role in the creation and sharing of knowledge. The chapter begins by outlining how virtual communities are gaining importance in the new environment. It explains what we understand as a professional virtual community and its importance and also the relevance of social networks in today’s Knowledge Management age. The study then analyses how the development of social networks is crucial to the improvement of professional virtual communities, and also how virtual organizations can promote the improvement of social networks. Finally, the study examines how virtual communities are vital as mechanisms for creating and sharing knowledge.

Interrelationships Between Professional Virtual Communities and Social Networks, and the Importance of Virtual Communities in Creating and Sharing Knowledge

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Garrigos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Creation

This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play a crucial role in the creation and sharing of knowledge. The chapter begins by outlining how virtual communities are gaining importance in the new environment. It explains what we understand as a professional virtual community and its importance and also the relevance of social networks in today’s Knowledge Management age. The study then analyses how the development of social networks is crucial to the improvement of professional virtual communities, and also how virtual organizations can promote the improvement of social networks. Finally, the study examines how virtual communities are vital as mechanisms for creating and sharing knowledge.

Privacy and Security for Virtual Communities and Social Networks

2013 ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Michaelides ◽  
Gábor Hosszú
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Privacy Risks

The importance of the virtual communities’ privacy and security problems comes into prominence by the rapid development of online social networks. This article presents the multiple threats currently plaguing the virtual world, Internet privacy risks, and recommendations and countermeasures to avoid such problems. New generations of users feel comfortable publishing their personal information and narrating their lives. They are often unaware how vulnerable the data in their public profiles are, which a large audience daily accesses. A so-called digital friendship is built among them. Such commercial and social pressures have led to a number of privacy and security risks for social network members. The article presents the most important vulnerabilities and suggests protection methods and solutions that can be utilized according to the threat. Lastly, the authors introduce the concept of a privacy-friendly virtual community site, named CWIW, where privacy methods have been implemented for better user protection.

A Semantic Model to Address Health Questions to Professionals in Healthcare Social Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Francisco Echarte ◽  
José Javier Astrain ◽  
Alberto Córdoba ◽  
Jesús Villadangos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Automatic Classification ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Ontological Model ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Medical Concepts

Internet social networks offer a wide variety of possibilities, including communication between users, sharing information, and the creation of virtual communities on many different subjects. One of these subjects is healthcare, where different social networks are now appearing and covering different objectives. In this chapter, a social network is described, where users can formulate healthcare questions that are automatically classified under concepts of a medical ontology and assigned to experts of each topic. These questions are then answered by healthcare expert physicians. This chapter includes a semantic classifying method that provides the automatic classification of questions by means of a medical ontology, based on the tags used to annotate them, and the previously classified questions. The chapter includes an ontological model that represents the questions, the assigned tags, the answers, the physicians, and the medical concepts.

The Influence of Collaborative Web on Knowledge Management, Organizational Structure and Culture in Knowledge-Intensive Companies

2011 ◽  
pp. 184-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Kirchner ◽  
Mladen Cudanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Management Change ◽  
Community Orientation ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Knowledge-intensive companies are quickly changing, involving many people working in different activities. Knowledge in such companies is diverse and its proportions immense and steadily growing. The distribution of knowledge across project teams, communities of practice, and individuals is therefore an important factor. With collaborative Web, tools like wikis, blogs, or social networks are used for collaboration and knowledge sharing. In this chapter, we question what influence these tools have on knowledge management, organizational structure, and culture of knowledge-intensive companies. As a result of our interviews and surveys done in Serbia, we found that with collaborative Web, organizational structure, culture, and knowledge management change is perceived among employees and that employee’s loyalty changes from company orientation toward virtual community orientation.

scholarly journals A Escola na Rede: Apresentações da Escola no Ciberespaço

Palíndromo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Fabricio Zanin ◽  
Moema Martins Rebouças
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Presentation Modes ◽  
Modes Of Presentation ◽  
The Way

RESUMOA pesquisa apresenta reflexões sobre os modos de apresentação da vida escolar a partir da figuratividade apresentada e nos discursos verbais dos adolescentes nas comunidades virtuais das redes sociais digitais, mais especificamente o Orkut. Discute também o modo como a escola se apresenta em seu site oficial e quais as relações e dilemas que se estabelecem entre o visual que a escola constrói  de si e o visual construído pelos adolescentes, sujeitos que constituem seu espaço físico. Tomando como referencial teórico os estudos referentes a análise do discurso que permeiam a Semiótica Discursiva dentre outras reflexões pertinentes a sóciossemiótica, pudemos compreender de que modo os alunos, por meio das comunidade virtuais, apresentam a escola de um modo que em muito difere do modo como a escola se apresenta em seu site oficial.Palavras-chave: Escola, Modos de Apresentação, Ciberespaço. ABSTRACTThe research presents reflections on modes of presentation of school’s life from figuration presented by teens verbal discourses in virtual communities of social networks, specifically Orkut. It also discusses how the school presents itself on its website and which relationships and dilemmas are established between the self-built school’s view and the adolescents view, individuals who constitute their physical space.Taking as theoretical studies concerning the analysis of discourse that permeate the discourse of semiotics among other relevant considerations to sociosemiotics, we understand how students, through the virtual community, presents the school in a way that differs greatly from the way the school has on its official website.Keywords: School, Presentation Modes, Cyberspace.

scholarly journals Comunidades em redes sociais na internet: um estudo de caso dos fotologs brasileiros | Communities in Social Networks on the internet: a case study of Brazilian photologs

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Recuero
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Online Social Network ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Computer Mediated

Resumo Redes sociais online são grupos de atores que se constituem através da interação mediada pelo computador. Essas interações são capazes de estabelecer novas formas sociais de grupos e comunidades. Através da discussão de diversos conceitos de comunidade e comunidade virtual, propõe-se o estudo das comunidades virtuais como uma forma de rede social. Esse debate teórico é discutido então no campo de estudo constituído pelo Fotolog, durante os anos de 2005 e 2006. O fotolog é um sistema que permite aos usuários a publicação de fotografias, textos e comentários. Dos dados coletados através de formas qualitativas e quantitativas, propomos uma tipologia para as comunidades virtuais baseada em sua estrutura (a rede em si) e sua composição (tipos de laços sociais e capital social). Esses tipos são definidos como comunidades virtuais emergentes, comunidades virtuais de associação e comunidades virtuais híbridas.Palavras-chave redes sociais, comunidades virtuais, fotolog.Abstract Online social networks are groups of actors formed by computer-mediated social interaction. These interactions are capable of establishing new social forms of groups and communities. Based on a discussion over several concepts of community and virtual community we propose the virtual community as a specific form of online social network. This theoretical debate is brought to the field studying the system named Fotolog during 2005 and 2006. Fotolog (www.fotolog.com) is a web service that allows for its users to post photographs or images with an associated text and other users may comment on each other’s posts. From the collected data, we propose a typology for communities found in these networks, based on their structure (network) and composition (social ties and social capital). We define three types of communities as associative virtual communities, emergent virtual communities and hybrid virtual communities.Keywords social networks, virtual communities, fotolog. 

Virtual Social Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Sunanda Sangwan ◽  
Chong Guan ◽  
Judy A. Siguaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Share Information

Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual learning or problem solving.Virtual communities in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) have evolved into active social networks, formulating an alternative social existence and this phenomenon warrants further investigations. In these virtual social networks (VSNs), member participation is essential for their success. Therefore, developing knowledge on how to manage and sustain participation of members in VSNs fills a gap in our academic understanding of the dynamics underpinning the processes of virtual community development. This article aims to address these issues by extending the theory of sense of community into a virtual context (SOVC) and by integrating it with other communication theory of U&G.

Privacy and Security for Virtual Communities and Social Networks

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios Michaelides ◽  
Gábor Hosszú
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Privacy Risks

The importance of the virtual communities’ privacy and security problems comes into prominence by the rapid development of online social networks. This article presents the multiple threats currently plaguing the virtual world, Internet privacy risks, and recommendations and countermeasures to avoid such problems. New generations of users feel comfortable publishing their personal information and narrating their lives. They are often unaware how vulnerable the data in their public profiles are, which a large audience daily accesses. A so-called digital friendship is built among them. Such commercial and social pressures have led to a number of privacy and security risks for social network members. The article presents the most important vulnerabilities and suggests protection methods and solutions that can be utilized according to the threat. Lastly, the authors introduce the concept of a privacy-friendly virtual community site, named CWIW, where privacy methods have been implemented for better user protection.

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