This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the
evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies …

Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting
up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate …

This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide
Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions …

Bourdieu's social theory offers a way of understanding some of the most important features
of the field of educational research, while also providing educational researchers with a rich …

In this paper, we discuss the architecture and implementation of the Semantic Web Search
Engine (SWSE). Following traditional search engine architecture, SWSE consists of …

The use of writing groups to support students undertaking post-graduate research within
universities has begun to receive attention from academic supervisors and doctoral …

Social network analysis is an active area of study beyond sociology. It uncovers the invisible
relationships between actors in a network and provides understanding of social processes …

The “community of practice”(CoP) has emerged as a potentially powerful unit of analysis
linking the individual and the collective because it situates the role of learning, knowledge …

The current study proposes an intelligent approach to compose optimal learning groups in
which the members have different domain backgrounds. The approach is based on a well …

Public and private organizations have access to a vast amount of internal, deep Web and
open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into …