Web 2.0: An Empirical Account
Web 2.0 is little more than a buzzword. Then again, there are applications and services out on the Internet that defer the logic of the old world. I recently co-edited a book with Paul Alpar which addresses the Web 2.0 from an empirical perspective.
There are four chapters on wikis. Klaus Stein and Claudia Hess discuss reputation as a mechanism which excellent articles in Wikipedia strive from. Anja Ebersbach, Knut Krimmel, and Alexander Warta derive several measures for the analysis of corporate wikis. Claudia Müller takes on wikis in terms of knowledge management. And last but not least, I scale up from communication to collaboration to better understand corporate wikis.
The table of content reveals a little more: The first part of the book focuses on weblogs, part two takes on wikis, part three deals with social network sites, and part four with social news. Be sure to check it out.