From Usenet to CoWebs : Interacting with Social Information Spaces /
This book provides an overview of interfaces to social information spaces, illustrated by several contemporary systems including Usenet News and CoWebs. Beginning with a general outline of those systems and a history of Usenet News, it looks at the problems of exploring virtual communities and distr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London : Imprint : Springer,
2003.
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| Series: | Computer supported cooperative work.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction to Online Studies and Usenet: Studying Social Information Spaces; "A Standing Wave in the Web of Our Communications": Usenet and the Socio-Technical Construction of Cyberspace Values
- Part II. Studying Spaces: Measures and Maps of Usenet; The Dynamics of Mass Interaction; Conversation Map: A Content-Based Usenet Newsgroup Browser; Silent Participants: Getting to Know Lurkers Better
- Part III. Enhancing Spaces: Computer Mediated Communication Among Teams: What are "Teams" and how are they "Virtual"?; CoWeb - Experiences with Collaborative Web Spaces; From PHOAKS to TopicShop: Experiments in Social data Mining; GroupLens for Usenet: Experiences in Applying Collaborative Filtering to a Social Information System; Exploring Interaction and Participation to Support Information Seeking in a Social Information Space
- Appendix.