what-when-how
In Depth Tutorials and Information
Markets
Product/Service Information
Comments, feedback,
attitude, beliefs, interaction
Purchase of Goods/Services
Subscription
E-learning
Community Members
Creation
Knowledge
Figure16.1
E-learningcommunities,virtualmarkets,andknowledgecreation.
(From Schrott, G. and Beimborn, D. 2003. Managing virtual knowledge net-
works: Topology and performance. In
Proceedings of the 2003 International
ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
(SanibelIsland,Florida,
November09-12,2003).GROUP'03.ACM,NewYork,198-204.)
people would argue that in an implicit case self-understanding is fashioned, as an
element of knowledge generation, through a tapering range of nonverbal figurative
prompts that can be passed on. Others would suggest that self-understanding and
acceptance of others are in the mind's eye as the person grows to be able to build
personas in the language used while profiting from the lack of other visual prompts.
he significance of verbal communication is noted in implicit surroundings in spite
of the greater vagueness created concerning its sense.
Figure 16.1 illustrates the basic idea of knowledge creation [5].
16.3 SocialNetworkAnalysis[4]
Social network analysis is founded on the meaning of relations among cooperat-
ing members. he social network standpoint covers hypotheses, representations,
and functions that are articulated in terms of relational perceptions or procedures.
Besides, with rising attention, social network analysis has turned into an agreement
about the central ideologies essential to the network point of view. Network analy-
sis is the study of social relations among a set of actors. It is a field of study, a set
of phenomena or data that we seek to understand. In order to work in this field,
network scientists have come up with a set of distinctive hypothetical perspectives.
Some of the main features of these perspectives are
