Introduction The Internet Becomes Embedded in Community Life The Turn Towards Networked Individualism and E-Citizenship Rethinking Sociability, Neighborhood, and Community Technological Changes Create Social Affordances Broader Bandwidth Always Connected Personalization Wireless Portability Globalized Connectivity Documenting the Current Situation of the Internet What Are the Internet?s Effects...

This pilot study is concerned with the exploration of tabletops in preservice teacher education, through the lens of sociocultural theories. An educational tabletop application designed to facilitate dialog and collaborative decision making, so called IdeasMapping, was enacted in the context of proposing a solution plan for a case study classroom problem. Students' responses to a questionnaire ...

In an increasingly competitive market place, the development of collaborative networked environments has become a key factor to companies successfully leverage their business activities. Nevertheless, when these companies get involved in more volatile strategic networks, it is necessary to deal with additional risks that need to be identified, measured, and mitigated through a well defined proc...

We are interested in real time collaborative interactions within Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE). This domain relies on the low latency offered by high speed networks. Participants of networked collaborative virtual environments can suffer from misunderstanding weird behavior of some objects of the virtual universe, especially when low level network troubles occur during a collaborativ...

This paper investigates the role of Web 2.0 technologies in establishing networked forms of collaboration across organisational boundaries. Emerging forms of collaborative working are explored, to enable identification of emerging trends in web technologies and a better understanding of the actual collaboration problems of knowledge workers. Several collaborative work styles are presented outli...

In interactive networked collaborative virtual environment (NCVE), users work in a group to be involved in interactive activities such as game, discussion and learning. However, without having a clearly defined roles and access control of the different level of users, interaction within a virtual environment will not be effectively carried out as these virtual interactions lack of many communic...

Over the years, computer scientists have primarily studied the information discovery process as a single user activity. For example, the research field of information retrieval has provided us with sophisticated techniques for supporting the search process, but mostly in the context of a single, isolated user’s interaction with an information base. The recent surge of interest in Knowledge Mana...

Virtual environments define a new interface for networked multimedia applications. The sense of "presence" in the virtual environment is an important requirement for collaborative activities involving multiple remote users working with social interactions. Using virtual actors within the shared environment is a supporting tool for presence. In this paper, we present a shared virtual life networ...

We examine the nature of Collaborative Networked Organizations in Government (CNO-G) and identify three core capabilities characterising such organizations Partnership, Coordination and Integration. By considering these capabilities as idioms for the CNO-G domain, we define a conceptual model that expresses such capabilities using modeling abstractions provided by ARCON (A Reference Model for C...