challenge voor PEERS, maar dit is wel de bedoeling..
Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. Contributors to this volume explore this question by drawing on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies, and personal experience with virtual communities.
So, what is it that constitutes our identity? Is it our selves, interacting with one another across cyberspace? Have our identities become modified or invented versions of our physical selves? Is our identity as a culture a vast morass of unmediated information? Is our identity as a society eroding because we are unclear about the survival of our cultural legacy? What is the potential of the Internet to build or disrupt the communities that under-gird our identities?
Digital life report, chapter about identity. Division between "I" and "Me"
The Internet is increasingly being employed as a means to facilitate the social process of human communities, and in particular a large variety of categories environments and mechanisms (such as Email, forums, blogs, wikis, reputation systems, MMORPG, etc.) are now available to mediate people interaction. This paper analyses the concept of identity in the context of the different categories of digital
social environments, and for each of them identifies some of the identity issues and illustrate them with an example. It emphasis in this context the importance of the social identity (an abstracted identity representing how people are perceived by others, and which
includes concepts such as reputation, behavioral transparency) and indicates the implications of social mechanisms and its role for the management of identity.
Proposal for the augmented social network: (a) for better knowledge sharing (b) establish a persisten form of online identity (c) enhance ability to form relationaships and self-organize around shared interests.... in all; an online citizenship for the information age.
Some philosophical reflections on how information and communication technology affects both our personal and cultural identity. Information technology not only creates new objects of experience, but new subjects of experience as well. Information and communication technology turns out to be a laboratory for the construction of multiple human identities.
lots of interesting content about learning, technology, etc.
article about social information filtering: items are recommended based upon values assigned by other people with similar taste.
However, content-based filtering has limitations:
article interesting for PhD
article recommendation systems.. comparison 6 sites resulting in taxonomy. interesting.
Eigentaste is a collaborative filtering algorithm that uses universal queries to elicit real-valued user ratings on a common set of items and applies principal component analysis (PCA) to the resulting dense subset of the ratings matrix. PCA facilitates dimensionality reduction for offline clustering of users and rapid computation of recommendations.
Eigentaste was patented by UC Berkeley in 2003. It has many possible applications, such as the recommendation of books, movies, toys, stocks, and music.
It was originally used in an online joke recommendation system called Jester, which recommends new jokes to users based on their ratings of an initial set.
Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013. Text with explanation about the report on which this statement is based.
For vendors specifically, there are 3 main challenges to becoming successful in this new industry, including:
cool blogpost explaining Wisdom of Crowds, a criticism on how it is conceived by many.
written in 1945, interesting notion about how information overload is already occurring, and how we should respond on it.
great resource about informal learning, many theorists and theories explained in easy to understand texts.
paper written in 97 about the future of work. laubacher and malone state the re-emergence of guilds, and increase in freelance work arrangements.
good blogpost about enterprise 2.0
criticism on the predicted e-lance economy. seems that number of jobs is declining, and that some of the main e-lance sites are shutting down.
The trend suggests that predictions of an economy run by freelancers -- such as those made by Daniel Pink in his book Free Agent Nation, and by MIT's Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher in their 1998 paper, "The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy" -- were shortsighted.
In 2000, research firm EPIC/MRA of Lansing, Michigan, estimated that 41 percent of all Americans would be private contractors by 2010. But today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that self-employment numbers have not grown at all over the past four years.
Good article by Alex Slawsby about the new economy.
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