Exploring the Impact of Social Networking on Communication in Organizations

ABSTRACT

Social networking technology has the potential to transform how organizations communicate, cooperate, and connect with key stakeholders. Our research explores how social networking technologies are deployed within organizations and how the use of these technologies is related to effectiveness in organizational communication and promotion. We also identify the facilitating factors and constraints around the use of social networking tools for communication. To examine these questions, we conducted interviews with 131 senior level executives across a broad range of organizations and employed both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The executives were asked to rate numerically and then discuss in narrative form a series of questions about IT strategy and issues affecting social networking in their organization. We find important differences both in the types of tools used as well as how they are used and discuss the implications of our findings for companies seeking to more effectively harness social networking technologies.     

My social networking profile: copy,resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems

This paper offers an introduction to poststructuralist interpretivist research in information systems, through a poststructuralist theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of social networking websites, such as Facebook. This is undertaken through an exploration of how loyally a social networking profile can represent the essence of an individual, and whether Platonic notions of essence, and loyalty of copy, are disturbed by the nature of a social networking profile, in ways described by poststructuralist thinker Deleuze's notions of the reversal of Platonism. In bringing a poststructuralist critique to such hugely successful and popular social information systems, the paper attempts to further open up the black box of the computer ‘user’, extend interpretive approaches to information systems research to embrace poststructuralism, and explore how notions of the Self might be reflected through engagement with information system (IS), and how an IS appreciation of the phenomenon of global social networking may benefit from embracing such a poststructuralist approach.     

中国移动全业务接入用户中WLAN与LAN混合组网的探索

对WLAN建设进行了介绍,并对如何利用WLAN网络优势,在实际组网过程中与用户LAN混合组网,形成一个完整的解决方案进行了讨论。     

Multicast issues for collaborative virtual environments

Multicast networking lets designers use new communication patterns in computer graphics applications. This article introduces multicasting, explains how it differs from more traditional networking, and describes multicasting issues for the application designer     

校园网中的ATM技术

本文讨论了ＡＴＭ网络在校园网环境中的应用方式。特别详细地说明了ＬＡＮ ＥｍｕＬａｔｉｏｎ的原理与实现方法，并提出了在校园网建设中值得讨论的若干问题。     

The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics

Everyone on the Internet knows the buzzword social networking. Social networking services (SNS) usually offer the same basic functionalities: network of friends listings, person surfing, private messaging etc. With such features, SNSs demonstrate how the Internet continues to better connect people for various social and professional purposes. The fundamental problems with today's SNSs block their potential to access the full range of available content and networked people online. A possible solution is to build semantic social networking into the fabric of the next-generation Internet itself-interconnecting both content and people in meaningful ways. The semantic Web is a useful platform for linking and for performing operations on diverse person-and object-related data gathered from heterogeneous social networking sites. In the other direction, object-centered networks can serve as rich data sources for semantic Web applications.     

Design and implementation of efficient communication abstractions on the Virtual Interface Architecture: Stream sockets and RPC experience

The emergence and standardization of system area networks (SANs) has provided distributed applications with a medium for high‐bandwidth, low‐latency communication. Standard user‐level networking architecture such as the Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture enables distributed applications to perform low overhead communication over SANs. The VI Architecture significantly reduces system processing overheads and provides each consumer process with a protected, directly accessible interface to the network hardware. Developing distributed applications using low‐level primitives provided by user‐level networking architecture like the VI Architecture is complex and requires significant effort. This paper describes how high‐level communication paradigms like stream sockets and remote procedure call (RPC) can be efficiently built over the VI Architecture. To evaluate performance benefits for standard client–server and multi‐threaded environments, our focus is on off‐the‐shelf sockets and RPC interfaces and commercially available VI Architecture‐based SANs. The key design techniques developed in this paper include credit‐based flow control, decentralized user‐level protocol processing, caching of pinned communication buffers, and deferred processing of completed send operations. In the experimental evaluation, the one‐way bandwidth achieved by stream sockets over VI Architecture was three to four times better than the bandwidth achieved by running legacy protocols over the same interconnect. On the same SAN, high‐performance stream sockets and RPC over VI Architecture achieve significantly better (between 2× and 3× less) latency than conventional stream sockets and RPC over standard networking protocols in a Windows NT? 4.0 environment. Furthermore, our high‐performance RPC transparently improved the network performance of the distributed component object model (DCOM) by a factor of two to three. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Recent advances in wired networking

With the Internet quickly becoming a part of everyone's life and wireless devices being adopted by an increasingly mobile work force, networking has lately experienced an unprecedented number of advances. These advances have resulted in pushing high-speed networking into new domains. Significant progress has also been made in the design of new networking applications and middleware, and toward solving complex regulatory issues. This article looks into the latest advances in wired networking. Excessive focus on one element of networking at the expense of others has led to many widely publicized networking technology failures. Business customers have only slowly been adopting VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies. The future of many premium services that require multicasting or high-speed network support from Internet service providers (ISPs) will depend entirely on how those ISPs perceive user needs and on how fast new business models can be developed     

P2P网络数据污染综述

对等网络应用(Peer-to-Peer networking applications, P2P)相关的安全威胁已经成为广受关注的网络安全课题。P2P网络共享文件内容的数据污染给P2P网络安全带来新的难题:例如,如何快速定位发现污染数据,分析污染数据特征模型,寻求高效低代价的数据污染治理策略等还有待进一步深入分析研究。针对P2P网络数据污染,从污染数据监测、数据污染特征模型分析以及数据污染治理策略等三方面,阐述了当前该邻域的主要研究动态,分析了数据污染相关研究的关键问题,最后指明了该部域未来可能的发展方向。     

On Social Networking and Communication Paradigms

Many will agree that email is badly broken when it comes to protecting users from spam, especially spoofing. With the growing prevalence of social networking sites, the increasing visibility into end users’ social connections will make it easy for scammers to figure out how to better forge return addresses, among other problems. Those who create social networking infrastructures must be vigilant in defending such sites, to keep spam issues from becoming as prevalent there as they now are with email.     

Ethernet takes on the first mile

In the first mile, Ethernet is emerging as the frontrunner for transporting broadband Internet protocol transmissions. The paper considers how Ethernet in the first mile (EFM) is poised to enhance the local subscriber network with IP-centric broadband services, letting local carriers build a converged broadband infrastructure. Ethernet promises to bring about the same revolution in access networking that it created in enterprise networking: fast, simple, inexpensive, reliable, interoperable and ubiquitous connectivity     

车载物联网技术及其应用探讨

随着车载物联网技术的高速发展,车载物联网技术已经开始被多个领域所应用,并取得了很大的成功,如何实现车载物联网技术的更高发展成为当前热门研究课题.本文首先详细概述了车载物联网相关理论,然后分析了当前车载物联网技术在不同领域中的应用,最后对当前我国车载物联网技术所面临的挑战进行了详细的分析研究.     

应用于iSCSI的TOE技术分析

由于现有的计算机处理能力跟不上网络的高速发展，使众多的网络服务器以及存储设备为处理TCP/IP而不堪重负，于是TOE(TCP IP offload engine)技术被提上了日程。该文分析了基于TOE的iSCSI for initiator的实现。     

计算机网络技术在中国高校图书馆管理中的应用初探

在进入21世纪后,信息技术飞速发展,为大学图书馆信息资源的科学管理和有效开发利用展现了前所未有的前景和契机,也为中国广大高校图书馆如何管理和利用图书和数据提出了新的问题。用计算机网络技术手段管理图书馆,是当前对图书馆工作的基本要求,也是图书馆工作自身发展的必然趋势;从图书馆各项工作发展角度,库存书籍和资料如何能够为学校各项教学、科研等做出贡献,值得我们考虑。而作为基础的计算机网络技术的发展是其技术保障,但背后真正的推手却是学校的经济效益。本文主要阐述了计算机网络技术在中国高校图书馆管理中的应用以及后续问题,并对其优点进行了阐述,提出了笔者的意见和观点。     

时间敏感网络研究进展

首先介绍了时间敏感网络的发展历程、技术内容;然后介绍了时间敏感网络标准协议中的部分重要机制,并重点回顾了近年来国内外关于时间敏感网络的研究状况,分析了不同场景下的应用特点;最后指出了时间敏感网络未来可能的发展方向。     

家用电力线联网系统的研究与设计

电力线联网技术作为家庭网络的主要实现技术之一，由于其特殊的联网优势，具有非常良好的应用前景。该文讨论了电力线联网系统的结构，着重分析了其特殊的技术优势，并概括了有关应用的设计和开发。     

The deep structure of organizational online networking – an actor‐oriented case study

While research on organizational online networking recently increased significantly, most studies adopt quantitative research designs with a focus on the consequences of social network configurations. Very limited attention is paid to comprehensive theoretical conceptions of the complex phenomenon of organizational online networking. We address this gap by adopting a theoretical framework of the deep structure of organizational online networking with a focus on their emerging meaning for the employees. We apply and assess the framework in a qualitative case study of a large‐scale implementation of a corporate social network site (SNS) in a global organization. We reveal organizational online networking as a multi‐dimensional phenomenon with multiplex relationships that are unbalanced, primarily consist of weak ties and are subject to temporal change. Further, we identify discourse drivers and information retrievers as two mutually interdependent actor roles as an explanation for uneven levels of user contributions to the SNS. Based on our analysis, we elicit abstract order principles, such as topical discourses, and identify transactive memory theory as a potent explanation of the evolving interaction structures. We finally discuss how the deep structure framework can contribute to future research on organizational networks.     

命名数据网络中的视频传输研究综述

互联网目前已经发展为一个由实时视频和视频点播等内容分发服务主导的网络.传统IP网络对于视频分发类任务的支持存在组播的部署复杂且开销大,不能有效利用多路径获取内容、对移动性的支持差和难以同时满足可靠性以及低延时需求等问题.命名数据网络(named data networking,NDN)作为新型的下一代互联网体系结构,支持网络内缓存和多路径传输,而且由消费者驱动的传输模式使其天然地支持消费者端移动性.以上特点使NDN具有高效传输视频内容的潜力.首先介绍了视频传输和NDN的基础背景,然后阐述了一些利用NDN中优势实现视频传输的设计方案.通过对已有方案的总结与比较,最后指出了在NDN中传输视频所面临的挑战.     

高职“计算机网络技术”课程教学内容项目化研究

高职计算机类专业课程教学一直难以有效解决知识传授和技能训练之间存在的矛盾,项目教学法是解决该问题的金钥匙。在分析高职"计算机网络技术"课程教学内容现状的基础上,本文探讨了高职"计算机网络技术"课程教学内容项目化的具体做法,提出项目分解和项目教学内容序化等基本思路。     

中国学术期刊光盘一级站远程联网检索

采用流行的WindowsNTServerRAS实现拨号远程联网,阐述了在建立了光盘一级检索站后如何实现远程联网检索,克服了拨号入网传输速度慢、不能实时检索的问题,提出用RA&CM解决上述问题的成功方案