Social Computing: Study on the Use and Impacts of Collaborative Content

JRC IPTS Study by Kirsti Ala-Mutka, EUR Number: 23572 EN. The report provides an assessment of the use, adoption and impact of collaborative content applications, giving an in-depth description of YouTube, Wikipedia and blogging, and discussing the socio-economic impacts and challenges of collaborative content. The great variety of collaborative content applications is providing people with access to a diversity of content and information, new relations to other people based on common interests, and a new tool for collaboration. Organizations can not avoid responding to the challenges that arise, but there are various ways in which they can also benefit from the opportunities available. A major challenge is how to nurture a responsible digital culture, where users adopt a critical attitude to both creating and using the content, and where the collaborative communities have sustainable models for participation and content quality management.

L'indirizzo del collegamento è: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1885