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  1. Andrew Keenan, A.; Shiri, A.: Sociability and social interaction on social networking websites (2009) 0.08 
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    Abstract
    Purpose - Social websites have become a major medium for social interaction. From Facebook to MySpace to emergent sites like Twitter, social websites are increasing exponentially in user numbers and unique visits every day. How do these websites encourage sociability? What features or design practices enable users to socialize with other users? The purpose of this paper is to explore sociability on the social web and details how different social websites encourage their users to interact. Design/methodology/approach - Four social websites (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter) were examined from a user study perspective. After thoroughly participating on the websites, a series of observations were recorded from each experience. These experiences were then compared to understand the different approaches of each website. Findings - Social websites use a number of different approaches to encourage sociability amongst their users. Facebook promotes privacy and representing "real world" networks in web environment, while MySpace promotes publicity and representing both real world and virtual networks in a web environment. Niche websites like LinkedIn and Twitter focus on more specific aspects of community and technology, respectively. Originality/value - A comparison of different models of sociability does not yet exist. This study focuses specifically on what makes social websites "social."
  2. Benjamin, V.; Chen, H.; Zimbra, D.: Bridging the virtual and real : the relationship between web content, linkage, and geographical proximity of social movements (2014) 0.07 
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    Abstract
    As the Internet becomes ubiquitous, it has advanced to more closely represent aspects of the real world. Due to this trend, researchers in various disciplines have become interested in studying relationships between real-world phenomena and their virtual representations. One such area of emerging research seeks to study relationships between real-world and virtual activism of social movement organization (SMOs). In particular, SMOs holding extreme social perspectives are often studied due to their tendency to have robust virtual presences to circumvent real-world social barriers preventing information dissemination. However, many previous studies have been limited in scope because they utilize manual data-collection and analysis methods. They also often have failed to consider the real-world aspects of groups that partake in virtual activism. We utilize automated data-collection and analysis methods to identify significant relationships between aspects of SMO virtual communities and their respective real-world locations and ideological perspectives. Our results also demonstrate that the interconnectedness of SMO virtual communities is affected specifically by aspects of the real world. These observations provide insight into the behaviors of SMOs within virtual environments, suggesting that the virtual communities of SMOs are strongly affected by aspects of the real world.
  3. Arbelaitz, O.; Martínez-Otzeta. J.M.; Muguerza, J.: User modeling in a social network for cognitively disabled people (2016) 0.06 
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    Abstract
    Online communities are becoming an important tool in the communication and participation processes in our society. However, the most widespread applications are difficult to use for people with disabilities, or may involve some risks if no previous training has been undertaken. This work describes a novel social network for cognitively disabled people along with a clustering-based method for modeling activity and socialization processes of its users in a noninvasive way. This closed social network is specifically designed for people with cognitive disabilities, called Guremintza, that provides the network administrators (e.g., social workers) with two types of reports: summary statistics of the network usage and behavior patterns discovered by a data mining process. Experiments made in an initial stage of the network show that the discovered patterns are meaningful to the social workers and they find them useful in monitoring the progress of the users.
    Date
    22. 1.2016 12:02:26
  4. Min, J.: Personal information concerns and provision in social network sites : interplay between secure preservation and true presentation (2016) 0.06 
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    Abstract
    Encouraging users of social network sites (SNS) to actively provide personal information is vital if SNS are to prosper, but privacy concerns have hindered users from giving such information. Previous research dealing with privacy concerns has studied mostly worries about information misuse, focusing on the protection aspects of privacy. By adopting an interpersonal conception of privacy and communication privacy management theory, this study offers a new way of understanding privacy concerns by examining the social and presentational aspects of privacy. It examines privacy concerns in terms not only of others' misuse but of others' misunderstanding and personal information in terms not only of identity but of self-presentational information. Furthermore, it investigates the ways in which information and social risks inherent in SNS influence privacy concerns. A structural equation modeling analysis of a cross-sectional survey of 396 Facebook users finds that longer usage does not alleviate the impact of information risk on either concern, that a greater proportion of offline friends among one's SNS friends aggravates the impact of social risk on both concerns, and that concerns about information misuse affect the provision only of identity information, whereas concerns about information misunderstanding affect the provision of both identity and self-presentational information.
  5. Kim, J.H.; Barnett, G.A.; Park, H.W.: ¬A hyperlink and issue network analysis of the United States Senate : a rediscovery of the Web as a relational and topical medium (2010) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Politicians' Web sites have been considered a medium for organizing, mobilizing, and agenda-setting, but extant literature lacks a systematic approach to interpret the Web sites of senators - a new medium for political communication. This study classifies the role of political Web sites into relational (hyperlinking) and topical (shared-issues) aspects. The two aspects may be viewed from a social embeddedness perspective and three facets, as K. Foot and S. Schneider ([2002]) suggested. This study employed network analysis, a set of research procedures for identifying structures in social systems, as the basis of the relations among the system's components rather than the attributes of individuals. Hyperlink and issue data were gathered from the United States Senate Web site and Yahoo. Major findings include: (a) The hyperlinks are more targeted at Democratic senators than at Republicans and are a means of communication for senators and users; (b) the issue network found from the Web is used for discussing public agendas and is more highly utilized by Republican senators; (c) the hyperlink and issue networks are correlated; and (d) social relationships and issue ecologies can be effectively detected by these two networks. The need for further research is addressed.
  6. Schreibman, V.: ¬The politics of cyberspace (1994) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Describes various aspects of the pressures of the information revolution and proposals for information superhighways impacting the US Depository Library Program, the National Research and Information Network, and the National Information Infrastructure. Analyzes the information to disclose the incongruent purposes, distorted legislative priorities, and dysfunctional infrastructure architecture being imposed on US society which are based on theories favouring business groups and concurrent paralysis of 'third sector' leadership institutions. Presents alternative possibilities for enhanced collaboration between members of the research and education community and for securing participative governance of the process of decision making that can foster genuine social betterment in the information age
  7. Hu, D.; Kaza, S.; Chen, H.: Identifying significant facilitators of dark network evolution (2009) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Social networks evolve over time with the addition and removal of nodes and links to survive and thrive in their environments. Previous studies have shown that the link-formation process in such networks is influenced by a set of facilitators. However, there have been few empirical evaluations to determine the important facilitators. In a research partnership with law enforcement agencies, we used dynamic social-network analysis methods to examine several plausible facilitators of co-offending relationships in a large-scale narcotics network consisting of individuals and vehicles. Multivariate Cox regression and a two-proportion z-test on cyclic and focal closures of the network showed that mutual acquaintance and vehicle affiliations were significant facilitators for the network under study. We also found that homophily with respect to age, race, and gender were not good predictors of future link formation in these networks. Moreover, we examined the social causes and policy implications for the significance and insignificance of various facilitators including common jails on future co-offending. These findings provide important insights into the link-formation processes and the resilience of social networks. In addition, they can be used to aid in the prediction of future links. The methods described can also help in understanding the driving forces behind the formation and evolution of social networks facilitated by mobile and Web technologies.
    Date
    22. 3.2009 18:50:30
  8. Kim, S.; Oh, S.: Users' relevance criteria for evaluating answers in a social Q&A site (2009) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    This study examines the criteria questioners use to select the best answers in a social Q&A site (Yahoo! Answers) within the theoretical framework of relevance research. A social Q&A site is a novel environment where people voluntarily ask and answer questions. In Yahoo! Answers, the questioner selects the answer that best satisfies his or her question and leaves comments on it. Under the assumption that the comments reflect the reasons why questioners select particular answers as the best, this study analyzed 2,140 comments collected from Yahoo! Answers during December 2007. The content analysis identified 23 individual relevance criteria in six classes: Content, Cognitive, Utility, Information Sources, Extrinsic, and Socioemotional. A major finding is that the selection criteria used in a social Q&A site have considerable overlap with many relevance criteria uncovered in previous relevance studies, but that the scope of socio-emotional criteria has been expanded to include the social aspect of this environment. Another significant finding is that the relative importance of individual criteria varies according to topic categories. Socioemotional criteria are popular in discussion-oriented categories, content-oriented criteria in topic-oriented categories, and utility criteria in self-help categories. This study generalizes previous relevance studies to a new environment by going beyond an academic setting.
    Date
    22. 3.2009 18:57:23
  9. Cisler, S.: Community computer networks : building electronic greenbelts (1994) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Gives a background to the development of community networks giving an outline of the current situation. Describes the information and services found on the networks, the connection the systems use, who starts and runs the systems and their sources of funding. Presents a range of current models describing HAWAII FYI, National Capital FreeNEt. Ottawa, Wellington City Council's Community Computer Network, New Zealand, and Big Sky Telegraphy, Dilton, Montana, and outlining other models. Examines social aspects of the systems and looks to the future of these systems in the light of changing technology
  10. Park, S.-G.: 'Disarticulations' in the information society : barriers to the universal access to information highways in developing countries (1997) 0.05 
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    Abstract
    Full benefit may be derived from the technological potential of the Internet on condition that serious attentiion is given to the social, political and ethical aspects, which are often barriers to the free and multi-directional access to information, especially in developing countries. Lists causes of these barriers - 'disarticulations' within a society - and emphasises their importance in developing countries. Examines possible different communication structures in a society and their effects. The traditional principle of free flow of information is not sufficient in the advancing information society; there is a need for a principle which deals more specifically with the 'activation', 'mediation' and 'networking' of the needs and opinions at the different levels of society
    Footnote
    Contribution to an issue devoted to papers from INFOethics, the first International Congress on Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Digital Information, held in Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco from 10-12 Mar 1997
  11. Bhattacharya, S.; Yang, C.; Srinivasan, P.; Boynton, B.: Perceptions of presidential candidates' personalities in twitter (2016) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    Political sentiment analysis using social media, especially Twitter, has attracted wide interest in recent years. In such research, opinions about politicians are typically divided into positive, negative, or neutral. In our research, the goal is to mine political opinion from social media at a higher resolution by assessing statements of opinion related to the personality traits of politicians; this is an angle that has not yet been considered in social media research. A second goal is to contribute a novel retrieval-based approach for tracking public perception of personality using Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List (ACL) of 110 terms describing key traits. This is in contrast to the typical lexical and machine-learning approaches used in sentiment analysis. High-precision search templates developed from the ACL were run on an 18-month span of Twitter posts mentioning Obama and Romney and these retrieved more than half a million tweets. For example, the results indicated that Romney was perceived as more of an achiever and Obama was perceived as somewhat more friendly. The traits were also aggregated into 14 broad personality dimensions. For example, Obama rated far higher than Romney on the Moderation dimension and lower on the Machiavellianism dimension. The temporal variability of such perceptions was explored.
    Date
    22. 1.2016 11:25:47
  12. Lauw, H.W.; Lim, E.-P.: Web social mining (2009) 0.04 
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    With increasing user presence in the Web and Web 2.0, Web social mining becomes an important and challenging task that finds a wide range of new applications relevant to e-commerce and social software. In this entry, we describe three Web social mining topics, namely, social network discovery, social network analysis, and social network applications. The essential concepts, models, and techniques of these Web social mining topics will be surveyed so as to establish the basic foundation for developing novel applications and for conducting research.
  13. Zschunke, P.: "Mehr Informationen als die Stasi je hatte" : Soziale Netzwerke (2008) 0.04 
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    "Millionen von Internet-Nutzern drängen in soziale Netze wie StudiVZ und Facebook. Diese Online-Plattformen für die Vernetzung von persönlichen Web-Auftritten entwickeln sich zu einer neuen Art von Massenmedium, wie der Digitale-Medien-Experte Hendrik Speck sagt. Völlig offen sei aber bislang die Frage nach der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung der "Social Networks". "Die haben mehr Informationen, als die Stasi je hatte", sagt der Informatik-Professor der Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern im Gespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur AP. Bei den drei Plattformen Facebook, MySpace und Xing hat Speck insgesamt 120 persönliche Attribute gezählt, die auf den persönlichen Seiten der Mitglieder angegeben werden können - angefangen bei Alter und Wohnort über Lieblingsfilme und -musik bis hin zu politischer Neigung und sexueller Ausrichtung. "Wir sehen da einen völlig irrationalen Zugang zu den eigenen Daten", kritisiert der Social-Networks-Forscher. Was aber treibt die Internet-Nutzer zu dieser Art von "digitalem Exhibitionismus"? Speck und seine Studenten haben die Kommunikation in den Netzen mit Hilfe von Software-Agenten und "Crawlern" zu erfassen versucht - das sind Programme, die auf die Seiten dieser Communities vordringen und die Inhalte auswerten. "Wir stellen fest, dass da unheimlich viel offen liegt", sagt Speck. Suche nach Anerkennung und Aufmerksamkeit Als wichtige Antriebskraft hat der Wissenschaftler das Motiv ausgemacht, über den stetig wachsenden Kreis von registrierten "Freunden" Anerkennung und Aufmerksamkeit zu erringen. Bei MySpace oder im SchülerVZ kann sich jeder auf eine Weise präsentieren, wie es in den klassischen Medien kaum möglich ist. Und weil die persönlichen Profile mit wenigen Mausklicks schnell erstellt sind, ist die Eintrittsschwelle sehr viel geringer als bei den Netz-Communities der ersten Stunde, etwa der schon 1985 gegründeten virtuellen Gemeinschaft "The WELL".
    Bislang sind es meist Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene bis etwa 35, die die Mehrheit der Community-Mitglieder ausmachen. Es gebe aber Bestrebungen, die Altersgruppe nach oben zu erweitern, sagt Speck. Die soziale Interaktion in den Social Networks kreist nach seinen Erkenntnissen immer wieder um die gleichen Dinge: 1) Unterhaltung - von Musik bis zu Stars und Sternchen 2) die gesellschaftlich geteilte Schadenfreude nach dem Motto "Pleiten, Pech und Pannen" 3) Flirten und sexuelle Beziehungen. Dabei kommen Männer direkter auf den Punkt als Frauen, die dies hinter anderen Interessen verstecken. Auf der anderen Seite stehen die Betreiber der Netze. Diese erzielen mit der Bereitstellung der Plattform zwar bislang meist noch keine Gewinne, haben aber wegen der gigantischen Zuwachsraten das Interesse von Internet- und Medienunternehmen geweckt, die wie Microsoft oder die Verlagsgruppe Holtzbrinck in Social Networks investieren. Der einzelne Nutzer ist 20 bis 22 Dollar wert Da die Technik der Webseiten nicht besonders aufwendig sei, liege der eigentliche Reichtum in den Nutzern und ihren Daten, erklärt Speck. Bei den großen Plattformen in den USA lasse sich aus den getätigten Investitionen für die Social Networks der Wert eines einzelnen Nutzers auf einen Betrag von 20 bis 22 Dollar (14 bis 15 Euro) schätzen. Der Gegenwert, den die Nutzer liefern sollen, wird vor allem in der Werbung gesehen. Neben der klassischen Bannerwerbung auf den eigenen Seiten versuchen die Betreiber der sozialen Netzwerke nach Darstellung Specks, in andere Dienste wie SMS-Werbung oder E-Mail vorzudringen. Um die Werbe-Zielgruppen immer feiner zu erfassen, werde auch untersucht, wer mit welchem Profil mit wem kommuniziere. "Je tiefer die Vernetzung, desto dichter werden die Informationen", erklärt Speck.
    Der Wissenschaftler kritisiert, dass die Daten so behandelt würden, als gehörten sie nicht dem Nutzer, sondern den sozialen Netzwerken. Selbst wenn es die Möglichkeit gebe, einen Account zu löschen, blieben die Daten vielfach weiter bestehen. Und über die beliebten Mini-Anwendungen zur Integration in die eigene Profilseite erhielten auch die Entwickler dieser Applikationen einen Zugang zu den persönlichen Daten. "Da weiß man dann gar nicht, wer dahinter steckt." Weder "open" noch "social" Google hat Anfang November vergangenen Jahres unter der Bezeichung OpenSocial eine Initiative gestartet, um solche Anwendungen und Schnittstellen nach einheitlichen Standards programmieren zu können. Das Projekt sei aber weder "open" noch "social", weil nicht vorgesehen sei, den Nutzern eine transparente Kontrolle über ihre eigenen Daten zu geben, bemängelt der FH-Professor. Das Projekt bemühe sich um die "Datenportabilität" zwischen den kommerziellen Projektpartnern und unterstütze die Interaktionen zwischen einzelnen Communities, versage jedoch komplett bei der Interessenswahrnehmung der Nutzer in Hinblick auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung und einem verbesserten Schutz der Privatssphäre. Um die zahlreichen offenen Fragen nach der Verantwortung für die Millionen von persönlichen Daten zu klären, schlägt Speck einen Verhaltenskodex für soziale Netzwerke vor. Für die gemeinsame Entwicklung von ethischen Grundsätzen will er neben Datenschützern auch die Betreiber der Communities gewinnen und hofft, schon in wenigen Monaten eine entsprechende Initiative vorstellen zu können. http://www.hendrikspeck.com"
  14. Sharma, N.; Butler, B.S.; Irwin, J.; Spallek, H.: Emphasizing social features in information portals : effects on new member engagement (2011) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    Many information portals are adding social features with hopes of enhancing the overall user experience. Invitations to join and welcome pages that highlight these social features are expected to encourage use and participation. While this approach is widespread and seems plausible, the effect of providing and highlighting social features remains to be tested. We studied the effects of emphasizing social features on users' response to invitations, their decisions to join, their willingness to provide profile information, and their engagement with the portal's social features. The results of a quasi-experiment found no significant effect of social emphasis in invitations on receivers' responsiveness. However, users receiving invitations highlighting social benefits were less likely to join the portal and provide profile information. Social emphasis in the initial welcome page for the site also was found to have a significant effect on whether individuals joined the portal, how much profile information they provided and shared, and how much they engaged with social features on the site. Unexpectedly, users who were welcomed in a social manner were less likely to join and provided less profile information; they also were less likely to engage with social features of the portal. This suggests that even in online contexts where social activity is an increasingly common feature, highlighting the presence of social features may not always be the optimal presentation strategy.
  15. Oh, S.; Syn, S.Y.: Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media : a comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr (2015) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    The success or failure of social media is highly dependent on the active participation of its users. In order to examine the influential factors that inspire dynamic and eager participation, this study investigates what motivates social media users to share their personal experiences, information, and social support with anonymous others. A variety of information-sharing activities in social media, including creating postings, photos, and videos in 5 different types of social media: Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr, were observed. Ten factors: enjoyment, self-efficacy, learning, personal gain, altruism, empathy, social engagement, community interest, reciprocity, and reputation, were tested to identify the motivations of social media users based on reviews of major motivation theories and models. Findings from this study indicate that all of the 10 motivations are influential in encouraging users' information sharing to some degree and strongly correlate with one another. At the same time, motivations differ across the 5 types of social media, given that they deliver different information content and serve different purposes. Understanding such differences in motivations could benefit social media developers and those organizations or institutes that would like to use social media to facilitate communication among their community members; appropriate types of social media could be chosen that would fit their own purposes and they could develop strategies that would encourage their members to contribute to their communities through social media.
  16. Eiriksson, J.M.; Retsloff, J.M.: Librarians in the 'information age' : promoter of change or provider of stability? (2005) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    When we were all facing the turn of the century and the somewhat larger turn of the millennium, we left behind epochs of colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, nazism and racialism. Not that the ideologies mentioned does no longer exist, but their impact as grand narratives has gone and they now exist as fragmented discursive parts of their former, illusive hegemony. Parts that have been thrown into the pits of post modern complexity. The 21st century holds no answers, no new meaning, at most it provides human communication a certain self reflectivity due to the increasing egocentrism and individuality of people (i.e. still mostly western people). Another symptom of the loss of grand narratives is a feeling of loss of meaning in everyday life, as well as the state of democracies around the world. Democracy shivers in its void between anarchy and repressive dictatorship. The description 'information age' provides the times we are in with a useful sticker. It tents both back in time e.g. the late 20, century digitalisation and forward in time by givingr origin to the contemporary discourse of social semantics i.e. Dream society, Knowledge society, Post modern society, Risk society, Hypercomplex society etc. The phrase 'information age' implied the introduction of a paradigm shift, and now it is still here showing that paradigms do not shift, they slide. This paper outlines a manifest for librarians and librarianship of the information age. The information age puts the spotlight on the librarian, both regarding classical tasks such as classification and cataloguing as well as new tasks such as systems analysis and design or database searching.
    Complexity establishes a paradox between the tasks of preserving old knowledge (memory function) and facilitate cognitive dissonance in order to challenge established knowledge claims and create new knowledge (catalyser function). Through complexity all social systems organisations, discourse communities, ideologies) face an environment (or surrounding) that is characterised through its instability and contingency. What is real, or presumable real from one point of view can appear completely different from another point of view. Different discourses of meaning and significance float, blend and separates themselves form each other the arena of communication. The library has to both keep record of what has happened, as well as take part in the ongoing battles for new discursive hegemonies. The unity of the paradox of memory and catalysing is described as managing complexity and requires a conscious and constant oscillation between order and chaos, stability and change. The role of the librarian is defined through an analysis of contemporary social semantics as well as the technical, ethical, cultural and epistemological challenges facing us as librarians and information specialists.
    Date
    22. 7.2009 11:23:22
  17. Takahashi, K.; Liang, E.: Analysis and design of Web-based information systems (1997) 0.04 
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    Develops a method for analysis and design of web-based information systems (WBIs), and tools to support the method. WebArchitect and PilotBoat. Aims to effiently develop WBIs that best support particular business processes at least maintenance cost. It consists of 2 approaches: static and dynamic. Uses the entity relation (E-R) approach for the static aspects of WBIs and uses scenario approaches for the dynamic aspects. The E-R analysis and design, based on relationship management methodology (RMM) defines what are entities and how they are related. Applies the approaches the the WWW6 proceedings site
    Date
    1. 8.1996 22:08:06
  18. Kavcic-Colic, A.: Archiving the Web : some legal aspects (2003) 0.04 
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    Abstract
    Technological developments have changed the concepts of publication, reproduction and distribution. However, legislation, and in particular the Legal Deposit Law has not adjusted to these changes - it is very restrictive in the sense of protecting the rights of authors of electronic publications. National libraries and national archival institutions, being aware of their important role in preserving the written and spoken cultural heritage, try to find different legal ways to live up to these responsibilities. This paper presents some legal aspects of archiving Web pages, examines the harvesting of Web pages, provision of public access to pages, and their long-term preservation.
    Date
    10.12.2005 11:22:13
  19. Cox, A.M.: Flickr: a case study of Web2.0 (2008) 0.04 
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    Purpose - The "photosharing" site Flickr is one of the most commonly cited examples used to define Web2.0. This paper aims to explore where Flickr's real novelty lies, examining its functionality and its place in the world of amateur photography. Several optimistic views of the impact of Flickr such as its facilitation of citizen journalism, "vernacular creativity" and in learning as an "affinity space" are evaluated. Design/methodology/approach - The paper draws on a wide range of sources including published interviews with its developers, user opinions expressed in forums, telephone interviews and content analysis of user profiles and activity. Findings - Flickr's development path passes from an innovative social game to a relatively familiar model of a web site, itself developed through intense user participation but later stabilising with the reassertion of a commercial relationship to the membership. The broader context of the impact of Flickr is examined by looking at the institutions of amateur photography and particularly the code of pictorialism promoted by the clubs and industry during the twentieth century. The nature of Flickr as a benign space is premised on the way the democratic potential of photography is controlled by such institutions. The limits of optimistic claims about Flickr are identified in the way that the system is designed to satisfy commercial purposes, continuing digital divides in access and the low interactivity and criticality on Flickr. Originality/value - Flickr is an interesting source of change, but can only be understood in the perspective of long-term development of the hobby and wider social processes. By setting Flickr in such a broad context, its significance and that of Web2.0 more generally can be fully assessed.
    Date
    30.12.2008 19:38:22
  20. Joint, N.: Web 2.0 and the library : a transformational technology? (2010) 0.03 
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    Abstract
    Purpose - This paper is the final one in a series which has tried to give an overview of so-called transformational areas of digital library technology. The aim has been to assess how much real transformation these applications can bring about, in terms of creating genuine user benefit and also changing everyday library practice. Design/methodology/approach - The paper provides a summary of some of the legal and ethical issues associated with web 2.0 applications in libraries, associated with a brief retrospective view of some relevant literature. Findings - Although web 2.0 innovations have had a massive impact on the larger World Wide Web, the practical impact on library service delivery has been limited to date. What probably can be termed transformational in the effect of web 2.0 developments on library and information work is their effect on some underlying principles of professional practice. Research limitations/implications - The legal and ethical challenges of incorporating web 2.0 platforms into mainstream institutional service delivery need to be subject to further research, so that the risks associated with these innovations are better understood at the strategic and policy-making level. Practical implications - This paper makes some recommendations about new principles of library and information practice which will help practitioners make better sense of these innovations in their overall information environment. Social implications - The paper puts in context some of the more problematic social impacts of web 2.0 innovations, without denying the undeniable positive contribution of social networking to the sphere of human interactivity. Originality/value - This paper raises some cautionary points about web 2.0 applications without adopting a precautionary approach of total prohibition. However, none of the suggestions or analysis in this piece should be considered to constitute legal advice. If such advice is required, the reader should consult appropriate legal professionals.
    Date
    22. 1.2011 17:54:04

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