The mass popularity of online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter makes them an interesting and important platform for exchange of ideas and opinions. Accurately capturing the opinions of users from their self-generated data is crucial for understanding these opinion flow processes. We propose a supervised model that uses a combination of hashtags and n-grams as features to identify th...

Collaborative tagging systems, or folksonomies, have the potential of becoming technologic infrastructure to support knowledge management activities in an organization or a society. There are many challenges, however. This paper presents designs that enhance collaborative tagging systems to meet some key challenges: community identification, ontology generation, user and document recommendation...

Maria Sarabia is associate professor of international strategy management and business management at the University of Cantabria, Spain. She has been a visiting professor in the economics department at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. She can be reached at sarabiamunican.es. Maria Obeso is assistant professor in the department of business administration at University of Cantabria,...

Drawing upon work in evolutionary game theory and experimental philosophy, I argue that one of the roles the concept of knowledge plays in our social cognitive ecology is that of enabling us to make adaptively important distinctions between different kinds of blameworthy and blameless behaviors. In particular, I argue that knowledge enables us to distinguish which agents are most worthy of blam...

The Social Knowledge Networks project has been defined, at Tecnológico de Monterrey, México, as a specific action for a better knowledge creation and transfer. The objective of this project is to identify and promote networks of its faculty members distributed along Mexico, and other agents, internal or external to the institution, with which they actually or potentially collaborate in differen...

It is widely established that the levels of generalized trust, norms of reciprocity, and identification (collectively known as relational social capital) in a virtual community have a positive effect on a member’s motivation to contribute knowledge in the community. However, little is known on the antecedents of such relational social capital. This study longitudinally investigates the effects ...

This study investigates how an innovative technology, social networking, can be used in the process of building and maintaining social capital and exchanging knowledge in an educational setting. We employ a qualitative methodology, autoethnography, to examine how social networking can help students learn from other classmates and professors, exchange knowledge, and adjust both to a new program ...

Web-Based Instruction, Individual Differences, System Features. Abstract: In this paper, we describe and propose a web based instruction (WBI) program. The purposes of this research were to develop the Web-Based Instruction model using Social Media Application to enhance Knowledge Management skills. concerning the faculty's participation in developing and teaching Web-based courses may lead to ...

End-user driven technologies, such as social media, have dramatically changed organizations’ innovation processes. In these new contexts, organizational decision makers have to contend with a de facto adoption of new technologies that they have yet to understand fully. In order to contribute to the understanding of these new contexts and their implications for organizations and their decision m...