Call For papers: Special Issue on: “Learning and Interacting in the Web: Social Networks and Social Software in the Web 2.0”

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL)

Call For papers: Special Issue on: “Learning and Interacting in the Web: Social Networks and Social Software in the Web 2.0”

Guest Editors:
Sheizaf Rafaeli, University of Haifa, Israel
Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece
Ambjorn Naeve, Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden

We invite open minds - academics and practitioners alike - to contribute their research on how social networks and social software create new opportunities, exploiting leading edge approaches in the design and modelling of systems towards the vision of Web 2.0

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Social network analysis as applied to the Web
New forms of interaction in social systems
FOAF and other metadata schema describing individuals and social ties
Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorisation systems
Sharing contents in on-line communities
Blogging as a social activity and approaches to semantic blogs
Wikis, semantic Wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
Collaborative filtering in social settings
Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge on Web users

For more information, subject coverage, notes for intending authors, submission dates and contact information, see the Journal Call for papers website.