From Usenet to CoWebs

Interacting with Social Information Spaces

Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher

272 pages, parution le 17/01/2003

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Résumé

This book provides an overview of interfaces to social information spaces, illustrated by several contemporary systems including Usenet News and CoWebs. Beginning with a general outline of those systems and a history of Usenet News, it looks at the problems of exploring virtual communities and distributed information systems, and of finding information in electronic environments. It outlines the successes and failures of traditional approaches like information filtering, collaborative filtering and information retrieval, and assesses new approaches such as visualisations of social processes and social navigation.

Among the key questions covered are:

What aspects of an online group are important to its participants?
How can the specific characteristics of a social information space be used to improve the design of the interface?

From Usenet to CoWebs will be essential reading for practitioners working on information spaces, conferencing systems, virtual communities and innovative interfaces to information spaces. It will also provide useful background reading for anyone studying or researching in these areas.

Contents

Part I. Introduction to Online Studies and Usenet

Studying Social Information Spaces
"A Standing Wave in the Web of Our Communications": Usenet and the Socio-Technical Construction of Cyberspace Values

Part II. Studying Spaces

Measures and Maps of Usenet
The Dynamics of Mass Interaction
Conversation Map: A Content-Based Usenet Newsgroup Browser
Silent Participants: Getting to Know Lurkers Better

Part III. Enhancing Spaces

Computer Mediated Communication Among Teams: What are "Teams" and how are they "Virtual"?
CoWeb - Experiences with Collaborative Web Spaces
From PHOAKS to TopicShop: Experiments in Social data Mining
GroupLens for Usenet: Experiences in Applying Collaborative Filtering to a Social Information System
Exploring Interaction and Participation to Support Information Seeking in a Social Information Space

Appendix: Studying Online NewsGroups

L'auteur - Christopher Lueg

University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia

L'auteur - Danyel Fisher

University of California, Irvine, CA, USA (Eds.)

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher
Parution	17/01/2003
Nb. de pages	272
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	411g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781852335328
ISBN13	978-1-85233-532-8