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Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Taylor and Francis, 2012.ISBN:
  • 9780415564786
  • 1136616055
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Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on editors; Introduction; Part I: Working in groups; Introduction to Part I; 1. Who does what? Structure and communication; 2. Studies of group behaviour; 3. Managing computer-supported collaboration; 4. Collaboration via online discussion forums: issues and approaches; Part II: Collaborative technologies; Introduction to Part II; 5. Groupware and computer-supported cooperative work; 6. The intellectual challenge of CSCW: the gap between social requirements and technical feasibility
7. Evaluating collaborative technologies - a simple methodPart III: Wikis and instant messaging; Introduction to Part III; 8. Asynchronous and synchronous communication technologies; 9. Wikis: \'from each according to his knowledge\'; 10. Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action; Part IV: Online collaboration in action; Introduction to Part IV; 11. Essence of distributed work: the case of the Linux kernel; Part V: Online communities; Introduction to Part V; 12. The heart of the WELL; 13. Research speaks to practice: interpersonal communication
14. Communities of practice - real and virtualPart VI: Virtual worlds; Introduction to Part VI; 15. Mudding: social phenomena in text-based virtual realities; 16. The changing meaning of play; 17. Players; 18. Everyday Second Life; Part VII: Web 2.0; Introduction to Part VII; 19. What is Web 2.0? Design patterns and business models for the next generation of software; 20. Publish, then filter; 21. The cult of the amateur; Part VIII: Social networking; Introduction to Part VIII; 22. Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship; Index;
Summary: Communication and collaboration via the Internet has risen to great prominence in recent years, especially with the rise of social networking, Web 2.0 and virtual worlds. Many interesting and worthwhile studies have been conducted on the technology involved and the way it is used and shaped by its user communities. From some of the more popular coverage of these interactions, it might be thought that these are new phenomena. However, they draw on a rich heritage of technologies and interactions.Online communication and collaboration presents a very timely set of articles that cover a range of.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Communication and collaboration via the Internet has risen to great prominence in recent years, especially with the rise of social networking, Web 2.0 and virtual worlds. Many interesting and worthwhile studies have been conducted on the technology involved and the way it is used and shaped by its user communities. From some of the more popular coverage of these interactions, it might be thought that these are new phenomena. However, they draw on a rich heritage of technologies and interactions.

Online communication and collaboration presents a very timely set of articles that cover a range of different perspectives upon these themes, both classic and contemporary. It is unusually broad in the range of technologies it considers - many books on these topics cover only a few forms of collaboration technology - and in considering well-established technologies as well as recent ones. It blends academic and popular articles to combine scholarly rigour with readability.

The book is divided into eight sections, covering the foundations of online communication and collaboration, together with current collaboration technologies such as wikis, instant messaging, virtual worlds and social network sites. These modern communication tools are considered in terms of their interactions but also looking back at lessons to be learnt from their technological 'ancestors'. The book also contains an extended case study of online collaboration, taking open-source software as its example.

Online communication and collaboration will be of relevance in a wide range of higher education courses in fields related to soft computing, information systems, cultural and media studies, and communications theory.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on editors; Introduction; Part I: Working in groups; Introduction to Part I; 1. Who does what? Structure and communication; 2. Studies of group behaviour; 3. Managing computer-supported collaboration; 4. Collaboration via online discussion forums: issues and approaches; Part II: Collaborative technologies; Introduction to Part II; 5. Groupware and computer-supported cooperative work; 6. The intellectual challenge of CSCW: the gap between social requirements and technical feasibility

7. Evaluating collaborative technologies - a simple methodPart III: Wikis and instant messaging; Introduction to Part III; 8. Asynchronous and synchronous communication technologies; 9. Wikis: \'from each according to his knowledge\'; 10. Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action; Part IV: Online collaboration in action; Introduction to Part IV; 11. Essence of distributed work: the case of the Linux kernel; Part V: Online communities; Introduction to Part V; 12. The heart of the WELL; 13. Research speaks to practice: interpersonal communication

14. Communities of practice - real and virtualPart VI: Virtual worlds; Introduction to Part VI; 15. Mudding: social phenomena in text-based virtual realities; 16. The changing meaning of play; 17. Players; 18. Everyday Second Life; Part VII: Web 2.0; Introduction to Part VII; 19. What is Web 2.0? Design patterns and business models for the next generation of software; 20. Publish, then filter; 21. The cult of the amateur; Part VIII: Social networking; Introduction to Part VIII; 22. Social network sites: definition, history, and scholarship; Index;

Communication and collaboration via the Internet has risen to great prominence in recent years, especially with the rise of social networking, Web 2.0 and virtual worlds. Many interesting and worthwhile studies have been conducted on the technology involved and the way it is used and shaped by its user communities. From some of the more popular coverage of these interactions, it might be thought that these are new phenomena. However, they draw on a rich heritage of technologies and interactions.Online communication and collaboration presents a very timely set of articles that cover a range of.

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Helen Donelan, Karen Kear and Magnus Ramage have long experience in researching and teaching this field, and are all Lecturers or Senior Lecturers in the Communicationnbsp;and Systems Department at the Open University, UK.

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