Social Networking

Paper Summary:

The paper aims to determine how social networking as a demographic and technological trend is changing the dynamics of how individuals and companies communicate in Australia, China, Sweden, United States and the United Kingdom. The paper looks at Facebook to show how the freedoms of social networking promise significant gain in terms of creativity, communication, collaboration and the development of entirely new social communities, but there are also many issues regarding the ethics and transparency of social networking.

Outline:
Introduction
Social Networking and Web 2.0 Technologies Are Changing Collaboration
Ethical Issues of Social Networking in Countries of Interest

From the Paper:

"The influence of social networking on globalization in general and specifically across the nations of the Australia, China, Sweden, United States, and the United Kingdom has fostered more fluid and rapid communication, collaboration, and greater levels of transparency (Hedgebeth, 2007), (Huang, Behara, 2007), (Kirsner, 2007), (Finin, Ding, Zhou, Joshi, 2005) and (Bernoff, Li, 2008).
"These three factors are serving as the catalysts of creating entirely new social networks that cross geographies and national boundaries. The collection of technologies referred to as Web 2.0 (O'Reilly, 2005) has their basis a more communicative, interactive Internet series of applications and processes."

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