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Online communities and discussion forums have become focal points for recent research. The online communities exist in many disciplines, and the use of forums is increasing rapidly in education, the workplace, and pursuits such as online gaming. Research has shown that one ultimate goal of online communities is to help members solve software problems. This paper explores support forums in open source...
Crowd sourcing has been discussed both in academic and managerial articles in recent years. Despite some critical voices, the overall attitude towards crowd sourcing has been quite positive in extant literature. In this paper we want to address potential drawbacks and issue that create shadows on top of crowd sourcing. The overall purpose of this paper is to discuss the reasons why crowd sourcing...
In this paper, we identify challenges of involving different stakeholders in distributed co-creative open innovation processes and discuss how these challenges can be managed. In the Loco Media project, researchers, newspaper representatives and readers/users have co-created innovative user generated content (UGC) services. Using a Living Lab approach with the user in focus in a real life setting,...
In this paper, three IT-based startups are presented that have each "hitched their wagon to a star" and have built their fledgling enterprise by blending the social, mobile, and instant elements of IT into their startup. This paper takes the form of a case study that first describes the founding story of one startup, Tweet Photo, with specific attention paid to the elements that prompted...
One of the most recent advancements in the use of the internet for customer-level business management is the ability to track individual customers' activities, approach them proactively, provide customized offerings and manage customer lifecycles. The shift from managing the community to managing its individual members is a common denominator in many related developments. Customer co-created contents,...
The Internet and Digital Economy track focuses on the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies (e.g., markets, social networks), as well as fundamental issues in the development and operation of the Internet and Internet applications (e.g., security, open source).
Objective: the objectives of this article are: (a) to provide an analysis of the key factors of an efficient web strategy with regard to the issue of patient empowerment, (b) to build an index for measuring the degree of empowerment of healthcare providers' web sites, (c) to measure the degree of "patient web empowerment" within the Italian National Health Service (INHS). Methods: a Patient...
A group of Navarrese business men and women have formed an alliance called NASF. The group is a Community of Practice (CoP) committed to fostering entrepreneurship within and beyond its local geographic borders. Contemporary CoPs are often extended to become Electronic Networks of Practice (ENP). NASF is an ENP whose online presence appears through individual contributions and community facilitators...
This research illustrates the importance of investigating the impact of cultural influences on Internet adoption. Two constructs related to cultural identification (national and ethnic) are elaborated based on orthogonal cultural identification theory. Another construct related to acculturation to the global culture is developed to provide a dynamic view of culture. Members of two different ethnic...
This paper analyzes the barriers to information and communication technologies (ICT) use among extremely underserved minorities such as impoverished immigrants in the USA. In particular, we explore the physical and psychological barriers that prevent Hispanic day laborers in Seattle from making effective use of computers and the Internet. Based on a mixed-methods study that combined structured interviews,...
Recently patients are increasingly turning to online health community to share their experiences and exchange healthcare knowledge. Exploring hot topics from online health community helps us better understand their needs and interests in health-related knowledge. However, statistical-based topic analysis employed in previous studies is becoming impractical to process the growing large-scale online...
This work presents an exploratory study of the different types of technology-mediated relationships that are formed in a sociotechnical system. More people each day are connecting with each other through social networks, online communities, and other forms of virtual environments. This study offers a framework for understanding how technology, user interactions, and user relationships are connected...
This paper studies how social relationships are reshaped by the enactment of ICTs through the interplay of traditional and new actors. Building on the perspectives of an ecology of games and the sociology of translation, we propose a framework to study cross-organizational processes and technology-enabled reconfigurations of power and resources of the interrelated actors. We then illustrate the framework...
Several minority languages are on the verge of extinction in Nepal, especially when they don't have a generally accepted writing system and occur in an area where Nepali (the official language) is predominantly used. Lohorung is an example, which is spoken among the Lohroung Rai communities of Sankhuwasabha, a hilly district of eastern Nepal. Older generations of Lohorung are experts in Lohorung but...
This paper focuses on recording how much a user is interested in the contents displayed on the web page with Fuzzy theory detection and finding out their relationship, as well as the rule of categorizing, via Data Mining technology, websites on-line into related communities. Then, proper adaptations of the web contents will be made in accordance with the most suitable positions of advertisements not...
Understanding the ever-changing scenario of computer networks and how they operate in the real world implies measuring and analyzing their characteristics. This in turn requires a set of advanced tools and methodologies to be shared among researches, along with the data derived from such activities. In this paper we first present some of the main issues and challenges in the field of Internet Monitoring...
Computer-enhanced smart environments, distributed environmental monitoring, wireless communication, energy conservation and sustainable technologies, ubiquitous access to Internet-located data and services, user mobility and innovation as a tool for service differentiation are all significant contemporary research subjects and societal developments. This position paper presents the design of a hybrid...
In this paper, we firstly create developer networks by affiliation between projects and developers, and then, with respect to social network analysis, take an approach to empirically study the new developers' behavior and the relationship with the centrality measures. We find that most of new developers choose to cooperate with each other initially, but more collaboration are established between new...
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