<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/9452" mdate="2008-09-24 00:00:00"> <author>Nurul Aini M. Nordan and Ahmad I. Z. Abidin and Ahmad K. Mahmood and Noreen I. Arshad</author> <title>Digital Social Networks Examining the Knowledge Characteristics</title> <pages>2963 - 2969</pages> <year>2008</year> <volume>2</volume> <number>9</number> <journal>International Journal of Information and Communication Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9452</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/21</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>In todays information age, numbers of organizations are still arguing on capitalizing the values of Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Management (KM) to which individuals can benefit from and effective communication among the individuals can be established. IT exists in enabling positive improvement for communication among knowledge workers (kworkers) with a number of social network technology domains at workplace. The acceptance of digital discourse in sharing of knowledge and facilitating the knowledge and information flows at most of the organizations indeed impose the culture of knowledge sharing in Digital Social Networks (DSN). Therefore, this study examines whether the kworkers with IT background would confer an effect on the three knowledge characteristics conceptual, contextual, and operational. Derived from these three knowledge characteristics, five potential factors will be examined on the effects of knowledge exchange via email domain as the chosen query. It is expected, that the results could provide such a parameter in exploring how DSN contributes in supporting the kworkers virtues, performance and qualities as well as revealing the mutual point between IT and KM.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 21, 2008</index> </article>