1st Edition

The Social Dynamics of Web 2.0 Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Charalambos Tsekeris, Ioannis Katerelos Copyright 2014
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Within only a few years, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, You Tube and other social media have become an intimate part of everyday life. Web 2.0, the collective term for all forms of interactive online communication, is characterized by the overwhelming ability of users to collaboratively create content. The implications of Web 2.0 have become a central focus for interdisciplinary social science... Read more

Foreword David Canter

1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Web 2.0, Complex Networks and Social Dynamics Charalambos Tsekeris and Ioannis Katerelos

2. Musical tastes in the Web 2.0: the importance of network dynamics Kostas Kasaras, George Michael Klimis and Martha Michailidou

3. Information sampling and linking: Reality Hunger and the digital knowledge commons Brooke J. Wonders, Frederic I. Solop and Nancy A. Wonders

4. Networks for citizen consultation and citizen sourcing of expertise Cristobal Cobo

5. An illustrated framework for the analysis of Web2.0 interactivity Peter Mechant

6. The political economy of information production in the Social Web: chances for reflection on our institutional design Vasilis Kostakis

7. Social intermediaries and the location of agency: a conceptual reconfiguration of social network sites Martin Berg

Biography

Charalambos Tsekeris is Visitor at the Hellenic Naval Staff and Command College and Senior Researcher at the Lab of Virtual Reality, Internet Research & E-Learning, Panteion University, Greece.

Ioannis Katerelos is a social psychologist and Professor of Social Research Methods at Panteion University, Greece.