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This paper presents a virtual excavation of Twitter, an asymmetric micro-blogging service, aimed at anchoring what is revealed through digital trace data analysis. The specific objective is to assess the potentialities for ambient community formation and cultivation in business-oriented virtual partnerships and web alliances using Twitter. As case study, the work focuses on organic farming and the...
The present work concentrates on collaborative virtual work and the tactics for spanning organizational boundaries. To this effect, it proposes an architectural pattern for Collective Collaborative Tagging (CCT) that integrates cloud-based resource sharing and enterprise portals. The current implementation exploits Dropbox for file sharing and the Liferay enterprise portal for managing meta-data and...
The paper builds on practice-based theories and cyber-archaeology to establish an analytical lens for understanding socio-material aspects of online music ensembles. The domain of investigation is music notation lessons (MNLs) as conducted using the DIAMOUSES system. The proposed practice-based framework rests on two notions - cultural artifacts of practice and quality attributes designating design...
The present work is concerned with a particular type of online collaborative engagements, namely the management of e-Health campaigns and online intervention studies. In order to establish the baseline, the paper critically reviews prominent tactics facilitated by Social Networking Services (SNS) and social web sites and contrasts them against the specific requirements of targeted online e-Health...
The paper explores excavation as a metaphor or conceptual lens for gaining insights to cyber-structures enacted in virtual settlements. More importantly, we vision such excavations in the context of enlarged Internet of Things, an inter-connected world of online remains capable of providing a different lens on how to make sense of cyber-structures linked via and enacted through the Internet. The emphasis...
The paper elaborates on the concept of transformable boundary artifacts and their role in fostering knowledge-based work in cross-organization virtual communities of practice. The domain of investigation is clinical practice guidelines development for cancer. By reviewing the social worlds involved, we claim that guideline development is a boundary spanning activity which can be facilitated through...
The paper investigates how practice-based studies can provide a lens for understanding the life of virtual communities. The domain of investigation is music interpretation lessons as conducted using the DIAMOUSES system for networked music performance. The practice-based framework proposed is built around two notions: technology inscribed structures and cultural artifacts appropriated or enacted....
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