Springer Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration: 15 (Annals of Information Systems, 15)

Social networks and virtual communities are often in the news, either being censored or facilitating academic cooperation. Here, leading researchers cover cutting-edge topics such as the requirements for effective collaboration in on-line communities. Review From the reviews:  “This new book is as an excellent interdisciplinary source of comprehensive knowledge and literature topics related to virtual communities, social networks, and collaboration. It is highly recommended to all librarians, information scientists, social network analysts, researchers, social activists, policymakers, legislators, social decision makers and various professionals due to professional discussions about technical problems of technology application and social issues arising from it. … The writing style of this book is clear, fluent and almost easy to understand. Explanations are adequately meaningful and comprehensible.” (Elaheh Hossseini and Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh, Webology, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2013) From the Back Cover Chapter 1. Health Related Virtual Communities and Social Networking ServicesStamatia Ilioudi, Athina Lazakidou, Nick Glezakos, and Maria Tsironi Chapter 2. Emergent Evaluation Criteria for Collaborative Learning EnvironmentIbrahiem M. M. El Emary Chapter 3. Evaluating and Enriching Online Knowledge Exchange: A Social Epistemological / Lay Epistemics PerspectivePaul Matthews and Judith Simon Chapter 4. Organizational Design of Online CommunitiesNick Glezakos and Athina Lazakidou Chapter 5. A Security Model for Virtual Healthcare CommunitiesAnargyros Chryssanthou, Iraklis Varlamis, and Charikleia Latsiou Chapter 6. Cybernationalism: Terrorism, Political Activism, and National Identity Creation in Virtual Communities and Social MediaMatthew Franklin Palmer Chapter 7. E-Government and Data Protection in the Public SectorMary Lampri Chapter 8. Building SCIENAR, a virtual community of artists and scientists: usability testing for the system improvementIole Alfano, Manuela Carini, and Lorella Gabriele Chapter 9. User-Generated Content for Location-Based Services: A ReviewLee Fueng Yap, Masahiro Bessho, Noboru Koshizuka and Ken Sakamura Chapter 10. Generating Social Awareness through Social Network SitesPenelopi Alexandrou Chapter 11. Markov Random Field and Social NetworksStelios Zimeras Chapter 12. Mobile Communities – Current Status and ChallengesVolkmar Schau , Kathrin Kirchner , Christian Stolcis, Christian Erfurth, Gerald Eichler, and Wilhelm R. Rossak Chapter 13. Social Networks in Environmental EpidemiologyStelios Zimeras and S. Geronikolou