Recently, Web 2.0 technologies such as Blog, SNS, Wikipedia, and Youtube have emerged as possible channels for exploitation by business and education. They are involved in the information production and distribution processes as well as the consumption process. Also, social network research in sociology and psychology has shown an interest in modelling and analysing the relationship between users and their communities. As well as providing ways to stay in touch with friends and make online transactions and new interactions in cyber environments, research areas are focused on sharing, collaboration and interoperability of web documents and social media.
This special issue brings various next generation social computing tools to construct, integrate, analyse, mine, annotate and visualise the social data from various transactions and interactions in engineering, business management and education.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Web 2.0 & Web 3.0
- e-Learning and social media
- Social computing and social networks
- Social network services in business/education
- New computational models for social networks
- Social media in business/education
- Collaboration and KM using Web 2.0
- Semantic web applications and developments
- The role of the educator in social networks
- Adaptation of learning theories for social networks
- Social network analysis in courses and learning environments
- Mobile devices in social learning
- Personal learning environments and networks
- The value of openness in learning
- Next-generation social technologies
- Scholarship and peer review in online social networks
- Privacy and security issues for social networks
Important Dates
Submission of Manuscripts: 1 April, 2015
Notification to Authors: 1 July, 2015
Final Versions Due: 1 September, 2015
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