The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information we Consume
By Josef Kolbitsch, Hermann A. Maurer. Journal of universal computer science (Online), 2006
341 citations recorded by the source corpus.
To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining influence rapidly. These new paradigms obliterate the clear distinction between information providers and consumers. The lines between producers and consumers are blurred even more by services such as Wikipedia, where every reader can become an author, instantly. This paper presents an overview of a broad selection of current technologies and services: blogs, wikis including Wikipedia and Wikinews, social networks such as Friendster and Orkut as well as related social services like del.icio.us, file sharing tools such as Flickr, and podcasting. These services enable user participation on the Web and manage to recruit a large number of users as authors of new content. It is argued that the transformations the Web is subject to are not driven by new technologies but by a fundamental mind shift that encourages individuals to take part in developing new structures and content. The evolving services and technologies encourage ordinary users to make their knowledge explicit and help a collective intelligence to develop.
Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems
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Citations in the corpus
- Predictors for Student Success in an Online Course (2007, background): “The integration of social software (web2.0) ( Kolbitsch & Maurer, 2006; Cress & Kimmerle, 2007) and new mobile technologies (Kurti, Milrad & Spikol, 2007) has created interesting new possibilities for organizing novel learning and working situations.”
- The long tail of social networking.: Revenue models of social networking sites (2008, background): “most important ones being the following: The creation and adoption of new syndication formats such as RSS and new technologies like AJAX, the increased number of people accessing the Internet via broadband connections, and also a change in the behavior and mindset of Internet users who have come to ”
- A Guide to Authentic e-Learning (2009, background): “…esteemed publications such as the Encyclopedia Britannica now have online versions where users can contribute and edit content, universities are generally reluctant to incorporate such public knowledge sharing into tasks and assessment processes (Conole & Fill, 2005; Kolbitsch & Maurer, 2006).”
- A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis (2008, background): “What is of particular importance in the Web 2.0 context for CSCL researchers is the integration of so-called social software (Kesim and Agaoglu 2007; Kolbitsch and Maurer 2006).”
- Information Asymmetry across Language Varieties: A Case Study on Cantonese-Mandarin and Bavarian-German QA (2026, unknown): “For example, prior work has shown that locally famous people may be described in a more favorable way in their own Wikipedia language (Kolbitsch and Maurer, 2006; Callahan and Herring, 2011), or that some aspects are not discussed altogether in some language editions (Samir et al., 2024; Wang et…”