With an emphasis on peer-produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new u…
"This book explores various social networking platforms and the technologies being utilized to gather and analyze information being posted to these venues, highlighting emergent research, analytical techniques, and best practices in data extraction in global electronic culture"-…
Habitat for Humanity is building sizable Habitat-only cluster developments that have created a pathway for affordable homeownership but have been criticized for not effectively empowering the social capital of partner families. This ethnographic case study explored how a sense o…
A literature review of how Christians use the Internet to evangelize cyberspace shows a lack of research on how well evangelists communicate the gospel online. This study is a qualitative content analysis that explores how well evangelists communicate the gospel of Jesus over th…
Understanding how individuals learn in faith-based learning contexts has been an understudied domain in Learning Sciences research. In this dissertation, I situated the church and online faith spaces as learning environments using Community of Practice frameworks. This study obs…
Situated within a sociotechnical, critical race, and technoculture understanding, this thesis explores the extent to which Web 2.0 applications afford marginalized communities a voice. Specifically, this study conducted a case study on Reddit’s Latinx community to examine the ex…
"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely …
"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely …
"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely …
The advances in online technology has revolutionised online communication. As a result of new emerging web technologies virtual interactions have taken a much more interactive structure. These improvements in technology provide richer communication experiences for the users. Onl…
This document summarises the submitted research which has investigated online knowledge exchange and related it to the philosophical field of social epistemology. The broad aims have been: firstly to investigate what social epistemology theory can offer in the way of guidance an…