The social dynamics of people cooperation: A study on on-line knowledge construction networks

Abstract

A classic question common to social sciences revolves around how people cooperate. Indeed, under what conditions will cooperation emerge without central authority? However, as the complication of community is growing, the importance of answering this question is increasing. That’s because the spread of mass collaboration has changed everything, such as Wikinomics. Questions posted about how networks connect individuals through structure and process, what rules and resources situate them in larger social systems, and affect the interaction to and from them. This paper concerns that why people are willing to cooperate without the aid of a central authority and how behavior and norms are affected by social relations. But the answer for people developing cooperation has a fundamental effect on social, political, and economic relations with others. Because of the social phenomena is composed of action, interaction, and relationship through network structure, analysts should not discrete individual behavior and ongoing network structure. As central objectives of network analysis are to measure and represent structural and to explain both why they occur and what are their consequences. The approach of this study is to propose network analysis to explain how participator actions for the cloud aid education in China. The aim of this study is to utilize network diagram to analyze network structure of the cloud aid education. Based on longitudinal study, we offer a structural means to understand how knowledge creation and sharing occurs within networks, and then find the key determinants of efficient knowledge management. Mapping these dimensions in social networks enable social and technical interventions managers can employ to improve a network’s ability to create and share knowledge. The result is illustrated by investigating conditions of cooperation and identifying social.