Monday, April 20, 2009

Research: Social Networking 4/20

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and learning management” by Maltiadis D. Lytras and Abmbjorn Naeve

In the book, “Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and learning management” by Miltiadis D. Lytras and Abmbjorn Naeve, it goes over the fact that social networking is changing our world. The authors realize that the internet may be a growing problem if we don’t stop it now. The fact is, people can locate a lot of information on the internet that they shouldn’t be looking at. The authors especially feel that this is a problem for students; they are the most venerable people. In the book, it states that “there is a fear that students may use electronic devices with which they are provided inappropriately.” (106) It is an authoritative source because it is a book; there were a lot of people who checked it before hand to make sure that everything in it was accurate.

Also, i decided to check out the author, Maltiadis D. Lytras, and there were a lot of interesting facts about him. It stated that he was an editor and chief for 12 other internation journals. He has also wrote 15 other books. He is a very well know author throghout the world. This book was published through the "Idea Group Publishing" in 2007 from Hershey, PA.

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