Abstract
The rapid proliferation of information technologies especially Web 2.0 techniques have changed how researchers conduct research, especially how they contribute academic knowledge online. Research social network constructed based on Web 2.0 techniques as a particular academic platform helps researchers create and find knowledge easily. Research social network helps researchers to share academic knowledge via tagging it. However, the reasons for researchers' meta-knowledge (knowledge about knowledge, e.g., tags given by researchers to annotate academic knowledge) contribution in research social network context and the extent to which this may differ from traditional knowledge contribution behavior in conventional virtual communities remain largely unexplored. To address this issue, this research use social capital theory to further understand researchers' metaknowledge contribution behavior based on data collected from a particular research social network: CiteULike. The findings provide new perspective to understand researchers' meta-knowledge contribution behavior in research social network.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceeding of the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016) |
| Publisher | Association for Information Systems |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789860491029 |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2016 |
| Event | 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016) - Nice Prince Hotel, Chiayi, Taiwan, China Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 1 Jul 2016 http://www.pacis2016.org/ https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2016/ |
Conference
| Conference | 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2016) |
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| Abbreviated title | PACIS 2016 |
| Place | Taiwan, China |
| City | Chiayi |
| Period | 27/06/16 → 1/07/16 |
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Research Keywords
- Knowledge management
- Meta-knowledge contribution
- Online academic community
- Research social network
- Social capital