A new book on Social Interaction Technologies, coming out soon

Here we are again with an announcement of a new book… This new book, perhaps the first of its kind, is  edited by Tatyana Dumova and Richard Fiorno and is entitled Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends. The book is expected to be out in July, 2009 from IGI Global.

I am happy to have contributed to this volume with two chapters:

• Social Media Marketing: Web X.0 of Opportunities (Chapter 4).
• Public Intimacy and the New Face (Book) of Surveillance: The Role of Social Media in Shaping Contemporary Dataveillance (Chapter 35, with Levent Soysal).

Below is a detailed description of the book.  You can also click here for the abstracts of all the chapters.

We live in a time unparalleled in human history: a time of fundamental cultural, political, social, and economic change marked by an exponential growth in human powers to electronically collect, process, store, retrieve and disseminate information and create new knowledge.

The Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends focuses on the latest explosion of Internet-based collaboration tools and platforms reaching end-users; it explores their origins, structures, purposes, and functions; and it muses over how SIT can expand human abilities and powers. This broad spectrum of applications and services includes: online social networking, blogs, wikis, podcasts, web feeds, folksonomies, social bookmaking, photo and video sharing, discussion forums, virtual worlds, and mashups intended to advance interaction, collaboration, and sharing online.

Key Features:

50 authoritative contributions by the world’s leading experts in social interaction technologies and collaboration software

Comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field

More than 1,750 references to existing literature and research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software

A compendium of over 380 key terms with detailed definitions

Organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals

Cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to social interaction technologies and collaboration software