On the Negative Views
There is an unanimous agreement among the answers of the participants, in a broad sense, they would like these sectors to have a positive view on social networks and exploit their features to everyone's advantage. It is interesting to stress that the professors think that to have a negative view on social networks is nonsensical because they know these networks can provide challenges and opportunities to use them for various purposes. Some ideas for their usefulness were given, such as they can be used as marketing tools and their communication potential can be exploited by academics wishing to make their research public, build connections and maybe create collaborations with peers from other countries. To have more scholars working in Wikipedia would be interesting, as expressed by the 1st participant, as they would study it and if they make contributions they could raise the usefulness and trustworthiness of this tool. I think that to dismiss social networks for their negative aspects is indeed an incorrect decision, by using and assessing them we can rethink information services and the way they can reach their stakeholders. The 4th participant mentioned that social networks must not be ignored because they are part of the society. As Carter (2005) stated, social networks they are being assimilated into “real life” (see section 2.2).