Social Software: Challenges, Risks, Issues And How To Confront Them (Part IV)

Social software is a concept that groups all those web-based means of interaction (blogs, wikis, instant messengers) that enable collaboration while emphasizing the importance of humans over the tools they use to communicate. Photo credit: Pathathai Chungyam In the first excerpt from the extensive research done by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework the topic of social software was introduced and its impact on the lives of the individuals and organizations analyzed. In the second excerpt I prepared and published the research focused social software growing influence on learning and teaching techniques in the era of the Net Generation. Finally, in the third article excerpted from this outstanding research report, possible future uses of social software were analyzed and dissected. Today …