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EUR 23415 EN - 2008
An Empirical Analysis of the Creation, Use andAdoption of Social Computing Applications
IPTS Exploratory Research on theSocio-economic Impact of Social Computing
Corina Pascu
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Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman (Bureau of European Policy Advisors –BEPA - European Commission) for his constant support over the duration of this undertaking.Amongst the many colleagues who have contributed their time and knowledge to this paper,providing valuable input and feedback, are Yves Punie, Sven Lindmark, Clara Centeno andDavid Osimo (their review has been fundamental to the consistency and quality of the report)and Patricia Farrer (who has carried out a language review).Visualizations of trends with social visualization tool Many Eyes reproduced with kindpermission of IBM's Collaborative User Experience User (CUE) research group.Author:PASCU CorinaIPTS IS Unit Project:Exploratory Research on the Socio-Economic Impact of Social Computing (ERoSC)Project Leader:PUNIE YvesProject Team:ALA-MUTKA Kirsti; CABRERA Marcelino; CACHIA Romina; CENTENO Clara;LINDMARK Sven; OSIMO David; OZCIVELEK Rukiye; PASCU Corina; PUNIE Yves;ULBRICH Martin; VALVERDE Jose.IPTS Internal Advisory Board:BURGELMAN Jean-Claude (now at BEPA); BOGDANOWICZ Marc; CENTENO Clara;MAGHIROS Ioannis.External Advisory Board:SIMON Jean-Paul, JPS Public Policy Consulting, FranceTUOMI Ilkka, Oy Meaning processing, FinlandMICELLI Stefano, Professor, Dpt. of Business Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy
An Empirical Analysis of the Creation Use and Adoption of Social Computing Applications
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« prev | next »- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 CONTENT CREATION IN SOCIAL COMPUTING
- Table 1 – Content creation in social computing
- 3 USAGE OF SOCIAL COMPUTING
- 4 DEMOGRAPHICS OF ADOPTION
- 5 USER PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL COMPUTING
- 6 MOBILE SOCIAL COMPUTING
- 6.1 The concept
- 6.2 Mobile Social Computing applications
- 6.3 The adoption of mobile social computing
- 6.4 Demographics of mobile social computing
- 7 FINAL REMARKS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS
- Blogging
- Figure 15 Number of active blogs (Source: Technorati March 2007)
- Figure 17 Daily Posting volume in blogs (Source: Technorati March 2007)
- Podcasting
- Figure 21 – Growth in number of podcast feeds in PodLook (Source: Podlook)
- Figure 22 Content format of podcast in PodLook in 2007 (Source: PodLook)
- Figure 23 Subscription to podcasts (Source: Feedburner)
- Figure 24 Awareness on podcasting
- Wiki
- Figure 27 Growth in number of articles (Source: Wikipedia)
- Figure 29 EN Wikipedia active usage over time (Source: Wikimedia)
- Figure 31 Growth in new Wikipedians per month (Source: wikimedia)
- Figure 32 Demographic patterns on the use of wikis in Europe (Source: Novatris)
- Social networking
- Figure 38 Sharing content online (Source: Universal McCann)
- Figure 40 – Demographics of user activities
- Online social gaming
- Figure 41 Playing online games (Source: Park Associates)
- Figure 43 MMO active subscription Source: based on mmochart.com
- Figure 45 Geographical distribution of frequency of usage (Source: KZero)
- Social tagging
- Figure 48 Why tagging?
- Figure 49 Blog posts using tags (Source: Technorati)
- Figure 50 Growth in number of posts using tags (Source: Technorati)
- Figure 51 Frequency of use of social tagging services (Source: Forrester)
- ANNEX 2- SYNTHESIS TABLES
- Table 6: Summary of podcast usage
- Table 8 – Summary of statistics social networking usage (online communities)
- Table 11 – Summary of statistics online social gaming usage
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