Social networking for web-based communities
In the 21st century, a new technology was introduced to facilitate communication, collaboration, and interaction between individuals and businesses. This technology is called social networking; this technology is now part of Internet commodities like email, browsing and blogging. From the 20th centu...
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| description | In the 21st century, a new technology was introduced to facilitate communication, collaboration, and interaction between individuals and businesses. This technology is called social networking; this technology is now part of Internet commodities like email, browsing and blogging. From the 20th century until now, the internet has shaped the way organisations, academics and health sectors to interact, communicate, connect, and exchange knowledge around the world. Social networking can reduce enterprises cost, increase profit, and assist to develop new communication forms between consumers, stakeholders, vendors, suppliers, universities and health departments. However, this technology can create new challenges for education and its governance and management. Social networking is considered to be as a precursor to the new ways of 3D virtual presence that will gradually supplant the telephone and video conferencing and finally even diminish the face-to-face communication. This article examines these opportunities, challenges, and threats of social networking in organisation, education and healthcare sectors. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-131892017-09-13T14:59:17Z Social networking for web-based communities Issa, Tomayess Kommers, Piet virtual communities organisation education social networking health sectors In the 21st century, a new technology was introduced to facilitate communication, collaboration, and interaction between individuals and businesses. This technology is called social networking; this technology is now part of Internet commodities like email, browsing and blogging. From the 20th century until now, the internet has shaped the way organisations, academics and health sectors to interact, communicate, connect, and exchange knowledge around the world. Social networking can reduce enterprises cost, increase profit, and assist to develop new communication forms between consumers, stakeholders, vendors, suppliers, universities and health departments. However, this technology can create new challenges for education and its governance and management. Social networking is considered to be as a precursor to the new ways of 3D virtual presence that will gradually supplant the telephone and video conferencing and finally even diminish the face-to-face communication. This article examines these opportunities, challenges, and threats of social networking in organisation, education and healthcare sectors. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13189 10.1504/IJWBC.2013.051292 Inderscience Publishers fulltext |
| spellingShingle | virtual communities organisation education social networking health sectors Issa, Tomayess Kommers, Piet Social networking for web-based communities |
| title | Social networking for web-based communities |
| title_full | Social networking for web-based communities |
| title_fullStr | Social networking for web-based communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social networking for web-based communities |
| title_short | Social networking for web-based communities |
| title_sort | social networking for web-based communities |
| topic | virtual communities organisation education social networking health sectors |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13189 |