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Social software, also known as social apps or social platform includes communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet. Communication tools typically handle capturing, storing and presenting communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a…
The analysis highlights History and Politics as prominent areas in the source structure around Social software. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.
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Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
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The extracted context around Social software shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Social software → An Introduction, Contemporary Sociology, IBM Center, January, Joseph, JSTOR, Manuel, May, Network Society, Reagle Jr, Revised, September, Simplified Definition, Social Protocols, Sociology, Tom Coates, Toward Another extracted example is Social software → Allen's, Although, Bush's, Capabilities, Christopher Allen, Collaborative Work, Computer Supported Cooperative, CSCW, Englebart's, Groupware, In, Memex, Social Constructivism, The, This, Web. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around Social software. Examples in this analysis include mailing lists → instance of → there are many older media and blogs → instance of → most users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mailing lists | instance of | there are many older media | 0.80 | text |
| Usenet fora that qualify as | instance of | there are many older media | 0.80 | text |
| blogs | instance of | most users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres | 0.80 | text |
| wikis | instance of | most users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres | 0.80 | text |
| Vygotsky | instance of | TheoryConstructivist learning theorists | 0.80 | text |
| Leidner | instance of | TheoryConstructivist learning theorists | 0.80 | text |
| Jarvenpaa have theorized that the process of expressing knowledge aids its creation | instance of | TheoryConstructivist learning theorists | 0.80 | text |
| that conversations benefit the refinement of knowledge | instance of | TheoryConstructivist learning theorists | 0.80 | text |
| comments | instance of | with attributes | 0.80 | text |
| thinking types which reflect the role of the note in the author's thinking | instance of | with attributes | 0.80 | text |
| Social software | has application | There | 0.60 | section |
| Social software | has application | Social Project Management | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Social software bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Software, Network and Networks. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Social software, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Social software with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Social software to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Politics, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Social software · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout