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HICSS
2005
IEEE
152views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Formation of an Online Community of Practice: An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements
Informal conversations occur all day long among employees. These conversations allow employees to share experience such as innovative ideas for performing a task. Internalizing th...
Lori Baker-Eveleth, Suprateek Sarker, Daniel M. Ev...
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 28 days ago
Lifting the veil: the expression of values in online communities
Wikipedia’s stated mission is to provide a free encyclopedia that people all over the world can use and contribute to. However, while Wikipedia is successful at providing access...
Jonathan T. Morgan, Robert M. Mason, Karine Nahon
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Bonding vs. Bridging Social Capital: A Case Study in Twitter
Online communities are connecting large numbers of individuals and generating rich social network data, opening the way for empirical studies of social behavior. In this paper, we ...
Matthew S. Smith, Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
188views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting trusts among users of online communities: an epinions case study
Trust between a pair of users is an important piece of information for users in an online community (such as electronic commerce websites and product review websites) where users ...
Haifeng Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Minh-...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes
There are many on-line settings in which users publicly express opinions. A number of these offer mechanisms for other users to evaluate these opinions; a canonical example is Ama...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinet...