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FACEBOOK for CoP of Researchers: Identifying the Needs and Evaluating the Compatibility

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Title FACEBOOK for CoP of Researchers: Identifying the Needs and Evaluating the Compatibility
 
Creator Miniaoui, Sami
Halaweh, Mohanad
 
Subject Community of Practice (CoP); CoP needs; Qualitative research; Grounded theory; Social networking platforms; Facebook.
 
Description Communities of practice (CoPs) are increasingly capturing the interest of many fields such as business companies, education and organizations. Many CoPs were developed for people who have common interest in healthcare, agriculture and environment, and teaching. However, there is lack of COPs dedicated for researchers. This research aims to explore the appropriateness of Facebook (FB) as a platform for serving a CoP of researchers. To achieve this goal, first we identify the needs of CoPs for researchers within UAE context. Consequently, we adopted qualitative research approach to elicit the needs. We applied the grounded theory method to analyze the data. The results of the analysis showed seven main needs: collaboration, debating, awareness/ notification, reference management, cross search, customization, tracking, and user orientation. Secondly, we evaluated the compatibility of FB features to the identified needs. Although we found that FB covers most of CoPs needs, there are few needs which are not met successfully so this raised some technical and practical issues, which have been highlighted in the paper.
 
Publisher Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
 
Contributor university of Dubai, UAE
 
Date 2011-11-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Artículo revisado por pares
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/art224
10.4067/S0718-27242011000400009
 
Source Journal of Technology Management & Innovation; Vol 6, No 4 (2011); 106-120
Journal of Technology Management & Innovation; Vol 6, No 4 (2011); 106-120
0718-2724
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/art224/658
 
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