Preface – Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends

Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends, Dumova, T., & Fiordo, R, eds., Vol 1-2, Information Science Reference, 2010

9 Pages Posted: 20 Jun 2013

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Tatyana Dumova

Point Park University

Richard Fiordo

University of North Dakota

Date Written: 2010

Abstract

We live in a time unparalleled in human history: a time of fundamental cultural, political, social, and economic change marked by an exponential growth in human powers to electronically collect, process, store, retrieve and disseminate information and create new knowledge. Computer-based information technologies (IT) have witnessed a remarkable expansion, penetrating all areas of people’s lives – from personal to public. The last decade saw a shift in Internet innovations from information transmission and retrieval to interaction, collaboration and sharing, from "read-only" Web 1.0 with information and communication technologies (ICT) behind it to "read-write" Web 2.0 with social interaction technologies (SIT) enhanced by a variety of so-called "social software." As ICT matured, a shift towards SIT became inevitable. Social interaction technologies refer to an assortment of Internet-based tools and techniques aimed at initiating, maintaining, sharing, and distributing interactive and collaborative activities and spaces online. Social software, also known as collaboration software, represents digital electronic systems designed to advance social contact and interaction through computer networks. Social interaction technologies can be viewed as a result of change brought about by ICT. SIT now pose as agents of future change in their own right.

The Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends focuses on the latest explosion of Internet-based collaboration tools and platforms reaching end-users; it explores their origins, structures, purposes, and functions; and it muses over how SIT can expand human abilities and powers. This broad spectrum of applications and services includes: online social networking, blogs, wikis, podcasts, web feeds, folksonomies, social bookmaking, photo and video sharing, discussion forums, virtual worlds, and mashups intended to advance interaction, collaboration, and sharing online. The contributors are scholars hailing from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S. with approaches from empirical, interpretive, historical, philosophical, critical, and other research perspectives utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Keywords: social media, social interaction, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, tagging, online democracy

JEL Classification: O30, O31

Suggested Citation

Dumova, Tatyana and Fiordo, Richard, Preface – Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends (2010). Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends, Dumova, T., & Fiordo, R, eds., Vol 1-2, Information Science Reference, 2010 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2280673

Tatyana Dumova (Contact Author)

Point Park University ( email )

201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
United States

Richard Fiordo

University of North Dakota ( email )

Box 8366
Grand Forks, ND 58202
United States

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