The Global Crisis and Academic Communication： The Challenge of Social Networks in Research

作     者：Sandra Martorell Femando Canet 

作者机构：Department of Media Communication Information System and Art History Polytechnic University of Valencia Valencia 46022Spain 

出 版 物：《通讯和计算机（中英文版）》 (Journal of Communication and Computer)

年 卷 期：2013年第10卷第8期

页      面：1031-1041页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 08[工学] 080401[工学-精密仪器及机械] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 0838[工学-公安技术] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：社会网络 学术交流 学术研究 知识网络 经济危机 研究人员 学术界 理想 

摘      要：The global economic crisis is seriously affecting academic research. The situation is provoking some big changes and an urgent need to seek alternatives to traditional models. It is as if the academic community was reinventing itself; and this reinvention is happening online. Faced with a lack of funding, researchers have determined to help each other develop their projects and they are doing so on social knowledge networks that they have created for this mission. The purpose of this paper is to analyze different social networks designed for academic online research. To this end, we have made a selection of these networks and established the parameters for their study in order to determine what they consist of, what tools they make use of, what advantages they offer and the degree to which they are bringing about a revolution in how research is carried out. This analysis is conducted from both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective, allowing us to identify the percentage of these networks that approach what would be the ideal social knowledge network. As we will be able to confirm, the closer they are to this ideal, the more effective they will be and the better future they will have, which will also depend on the commitment of users to participation and the quality of their contributions.