Title Cyberscience 2.0 : research in the age of digital social networks / Michael Nentwich, René König

Published Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2012] ©2012

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Description x, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm Series Interaktiva : series of the Center for Media and Interactivity (ZMI), Gießen ; v. 11 = Interaktiva : Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität (ZMI), Giessen ; Band 11 Interaktiva ; Bd. 11 Contents Introduction. Cyberscience 1.0 revisited ; Web 2.0 and cyberscience ; Conceptual framework and methods -- Case studies. Social network sites ; Microblogging ; Collaborative knowledge production : the case of Wikimedia ; Virtual worlds : the case of Second Life ; Search engines : the case of Google -- Cross-cutting analysis. Interactivity as a crucial category ; New windows in the ivory tower ; Academic quality and digital social networks ; Information overload or information paradise? ; Between transparency and privacy ; Towards democratization of science? -- Overall conclusions and outlook Notes Result of research carried out by the authors at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Cf. pref Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-232) and index Subject Web 2.0 -- Social aspects. Online social networks. Electronic information resource searching -- Social aspects. Information technology -- Social aspects. Microblogs -- Social aspects. Search engines -- Social aspects. Author König, René, 1980- Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen. Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung. ISBN 9783593395180 3593395185

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