Web 2.0 and Academia

Abstract

This contribution with an empirical focus analyses typical Web 2.0 services from the perspective of their use in academia. In particular social networking services such as ResearchGATE, Wikipedia as a tool for and by scientists, research blogging, microblogging like Twitter, and finally social tag- ging like Delicious and Zotero. The preliminary conclusion is that all of these new services are used in academia to varying degrees. 1