Call for papers: IJKL special Issue on: "Learning and Interacting in the Web: Social Networks and Social Software in the Web 2.0"
Yishay Mor
(Abstract deadline: 30 Sept.)
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
Knowledge and learning are
social phenomena as well as human-centric. In simple terms, the
deployment of emerging technologies in knowledge and learning requires
the multilevel support of individuals, teams, communities and networks.
The evolution of technologies has made difficult the distinction
between the various levels of reference. Put simply, people are not
isolated from their micro- or macro-environment. However,
technology-supported information highways have developed unforeseen
opportunities for knowledge and learning flows between the peers in
this network. According to Finin et all (2005), social networks are "explicit
representations of the relationships between individuals and groups in
a community. In the abstract, these networks are just simple graphs
with nodes for the people and groups and links for the relationships.
In practice, the links can encode all kinds of relationships –
familial, friendship, professional or organizational. Social network
theory, the study of such social networks, has developed techniques
found useful in many fields, including sociology, anthropology,
psychology and organizational studies… Virtual or online communities
are groups of people connected through the Internet and other
information technologies. These have become an important part of modern
society and contribute to life in many contexts - social, educational,
political and business. The communication technologies and
infrastructures used to support virtual communities have evolved with
the Internet and include electronic mailing lists, bulletin boards,
usenet, IRC, Wikis, and blogs." Downes (2005), argues that personal descriptions, as found in social
networks, and resource descriptions, as found in the semantic web,
should be merged to form a single network, the semantic social network. It seems that knowledge and learning domain enters in a new era
where micro-contents¹ provide the most critical asset. Web 2.0² is the
new buzzword with great potential. The key motivation for this special issue is to go beyond the words
and wishful thinking to examine the critical role of networks for the
promotion of knowledge and learning. 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
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Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab
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