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Yesterday Joe Esposito pointed out a new word from The Scholarly Kitchen blog on "apomediation," an alternative to mediation and disintermediation.
Archive 2008-08-01 Martyn Daniels 2008
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Yesterday Joe Esposito pointed out a new word from The Scholarly Kitchen blog on "apomediation," an alternative to mediation and disintermediation.
Today’s Word Is - Apomediation Martyn Daniels 2008
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Eysenbach [Eysenbach Medicine 2.0 Editorial, this issue] suggests the new scholarly term "apomediation" for the function of the intermediary, emphasizing the positive guidance toward high-quality resources (in this case, collaborators).
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Please don't blame me, but the newly-made word "apomediation" comes to my mind when looking at the cartoon above.
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This of course highlights another problem - which is that even networked "apomediation" models are liable to fraud and "Scam 2.0".
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Other examples of apomediaries and apomediation tools include consumer ratings on amazon. com or epinions. com; technologies like PICS or MedPICS labels and its RDF successors that enable machine-processable dissemination and interpretation of user ratings
Journal of Medical Internet Research Gunther Eysenbach 2008
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It is an open research question whether, and under which circumstances, apomediation models work better than intermediation approaches, and how apomediation models can be made less susceptible to fraud.
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Other examples of apomediaries and apomediation tools include consumer ratings on amazon. com or epinions. com; technologies like PICS or MedPICS labels and its RDF successors that enable machine-processable dissemination and interpretation of user ratings
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In contrast, apomediation means that there are agents (people, tools) which "stand by" (latin: apo - means separate, detached, away from) to guide a consumer to high quality information and services without being a prerequisite to obtain that information or service in the first place, and with limited individual power to alter or select the information that is being brokered.
Journal of Medical Internet Research Gunther Eysenbach 2008
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It is an open research question whether, and under which circumstances, apomediation models work better than intermediation approaches, and how apomediation models can be made less susceptible to fraud.
Journal of Medical Internet Research Gunther Eysenbach 2008
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