"This book highlights the successes of community wireless networks but also boldly addresses the potential risk factors and broader socioeconomic concerns, exploring previous successes and failures, various designs, and potential challenges with CWNs"--Provided by publisher.

The development of information and communication technologies enables dynamic social interaction through computer-mediated communication. This book describes the growing proliferation of CMC applications and the need for new perspectives, methods and tools for research and practice. It explores...

"This book examines a range of 'disruptive' approaches, exploring how challenge, dissonance, and discomfort might be mobilized in educational contexts in order to shift taken-for-granted attitudes and beliefs held by both educators and learners"--Provided by publisher.

1. How the Crowd Can Teach -- 2. Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice -- 3. Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace -- 4. Weblogs in Higher Education -- 5. Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile...

"This book takes a critical look at IT Governance challenges in a world that is becoming increasingly networked. IT firms are becoming increasingly reliant on alliances and partnerships to generate new value"--Provided by publisher.

This book draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs and presents their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practica view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case...

A Knowledge Strategy Oriented Framework for Classifying Knowledge Management Tools / Gianluca Elia -- Social Software for Bottom-Up Knowledge Networking and Community Building / Mohamed Amine Chatti -- Weaving a Knowledge Web with Wikis / Kevin R. Parker, Joseph T. Chao -- Media Centric...

Throughout history, the permeation of new technologies have assisted communities in their aim to collectively work together in addressing shared problems for the attainment of specific goals and outcomes. This book broadly examines what constitutes social capital in geographical communities and...

The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving...