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Social Software in Academia: Three Studies on Users’ Acceptance of Web 2.0 Services

Weller, Katrin and Dornstädter, Ramona and Freimanis, Raimonds and Klein, Raphael N. and Perez, Maredith (2010) Social Software in Academia: Three Studies on Users’ Acceptance of Web 2.0 Services. In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US.

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Abstract

This paper presents a summary and comparison of the results of three surveys with different groups of users concerning their usage of social software tools in academic settings. The first survey addressed students across various disciplines (1024 participants), the second one addressed only students in information science and related disciplines (346 participants), and the third one addressed researchers and university teachers (136 participants) across several disciplines.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Uncontrolled Keywords:survey, social software, usage statistics, science 2.0, eScholarship
Subjects:Web Science Events > Web Science 2010
ID Code:360
Deposited By: W S T Administrator
Deposited On:15 Mar 2010 10:18
Last Modified:25 Oct 2011 16:59

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