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The chapter analyzes the ways in which the development of various social networking tools is influencing the academic world. There are threats and opportunities. The academics could benefit from the significant opportunities created by changing ideas. Working on a collaborative, real time on-line basis, increases the possibilities of exchanging ideas. However, the vast amount of literature available on the Internet is co-authored by non academics and is not “vetted” or subject to peer review. How valid are the theories and findings of such papers? This is a serious matter of concern. The future (for example, MyNetResearch) belongs to tools that facilitate dedicated research exploiting current social networking opportunities. The focus of this chapter is to discuss pertinent social networking tools and how they can be used at their best to stimulate collaborative research.
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We made the following experiment. We looked through the Google search engine after the following fragment of sentence: “influence of the internet on the academic habits“. We obtained 1,140,000 results. Among them, the ready-made wiki.answers (wiki.answers is defined as: “Website that facilitates the answering of questions as well as allowing anyone to sign up and answer the questions of others. If you show exceptional skill, you might be recommended to be a supervisor, which allows to you to have the same power as a webmaster“, see: http://www.wiki.answers.com, cited 18 March, 2009) Q.: What are the factors that influence study habits among high school student? A.: Factors influencing study habits among high school student are: socio economic, concentration, remembering, organising time, listening and taking notes, taking tests, motivation”. It is an answer gave without further references and citations, attributed to a nickname. Could be took into consideration for an academic research? Or it is rather an argument for relying first on the academic standards already in use for writing a scientific article?.
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http://dictionary.cambridge.org, cited 17 March, 2009.
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http://www.catalhoyuk.com/, cited 17 March, 2009.
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Dinescu, A. (2010). The Coming “République des Lettres”. In: Anandarajan, M., Anandarajan, M. (eds) e-Research Collaboration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12257-6_16
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