The diffusion of social media and knowledge management - Towards an integrative typology

Zeller, Frauke; Chatterjee, Jayanta; Bräuer, Marco; Steinicke, Ingmar; Lapteva, Oxana

Abstract

This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter's typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a dicussion of case study results from India provdes the adaptability as well as usefull of the typology. At the same time, the case study serves as an example to depict a socio-economic perspective on social media and knowledge management in Digital Ecosystems.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: OPAALS 2010
• Start Date: Mar 22, 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Apr 29, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 62-75
• Series Title: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering book series (LNICST)
• Series Number: 67
• Book Title: Digital Eco-Systems
• ISBN: 978-3-642-14858-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14859-0_5
• Keywords: Knowledge co-creation, Knowledge management, Presumption, Produsage, Social media, Typology, Web 2.0
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3085856