Knowledge (expertise, skills, and information) being exchanged on the platform Wikipedia, an open collaborative online encyclopedia 

Knowledge sharing on Wikipedia

Knowledge being exchanged through the use of social media sites and platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and more

Knowledge sharing through social media

Knowledge being shared on Stack Exchange, a self-moderated site consisting of a network of questions and answers on various topics. 

Knowledge sharing on Stack Exchange

Publications, journal articles, and research papers allow researchers and scientists to share their findings. 

Knowledge sharing through publications

Fake news has become more prevalent and can be defined as “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting” 

Fake News

Greifeneder, R., Jaffe, M., Newman, E., & Schwarz, N. (2021). The psychology of fake news: Accepting, sharing, and correcting misinformation (p. 252).

The Psychology of Fake News; Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation


- All decisions on 1Cademy are made based on the majority of votes.
- No one has any special privilege over others.
- The community progressively and collaboratively decides which concepts are important to the community by upvoting the helpful nodes and downvoting/eliminating the unhelpful and/or potentially misleading ones.
- 1Cademy locks highly upvoted nodes from changes unless the proposal gets approved by at least half of the number of users that upvoted the node.

Democratizing Knowledge Sharing on 1Cademy

Twitter

Practices are identified based on an underlying knowledge problem and supported by social technology
- 1) expertise locating
- 2) expert locating
- 3) reaching out
- 4) socializing
- 5) horizon broadening

Five knowledge practices

Twitter is commonly used to share knowledge and take part in other knowledge practices. Researchers, business people, casual users and more participate in discourse and discussion, taking to the platform to share their ideas, voice their opinions and engage with others. 

Knowledge sharing on twitter

Knowledge being exchanged between people (or groups of). Includes the exchange of expertise, skills, and information.

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- Knowledge sharing
- Social technologies
- Collaboratories
- Online communities
- Knowledge management

Focuses of CSCW

Wikipedia

Knowledge Sharing

A way of using digital, and technical resources in order to shape the human social experience

Social Technologies

- Originally defined by William Wulf  (1989) as a “center without walls, in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information in digital libraries”.

- It was redefined by Sara Bly in 1998 as “a system which combines the interests of the scientific community at large with those of the computer science and engineering community to create integrated, tool-oriented computing and communication systems to support scientific collaboration”

Collaboratories

An "online community" (AKA internet community or web community) refers to any virtual environment where individuals gather to communicate, share information or resources, learn, play or spend time with one another. This term can be used to describe various social configurations, from small tight-knit groups to sites with millions of members.

Online Communities

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For enabling sharing, creating, and collaborating on information and knowledge. Example tools for managing online collaboration and communities:
- Groupware
- Workflow Systems
- Email
- Chat rooms / VOIP
- Forums / Discussion boards

Collaboration / Community Management

For exchanging, sharing, acquiring, creating and distribution of information. Example tools for managing social software:
- Social networking metrics
- Topic maps / nets
- RSS analysis
- File hosting
- Traffic metrics

Social Software Management

For improving and facilitating collaboration in working groups. Example tools for peer-to-peer knowledge tools are:
- File sharing
- Synchronous communication

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