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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Vladimir Soroka, Sheizaf Rafaeli
HICSS
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Peer-to-Peer Valuation as a Mechanism for Reinforcing Active Learning in Virtual Communities: Actualizing Social Exchange Theory
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Amrit Tiwana, Ashley A. Bush
IJWBC
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Self-supportive virtual communities
Learning Communities in healthcare is one approach in supporting practitioners and nurses to improve skills and knowledge and consequently support patients more efficiently. Web b...
Iraklis Varlamis, Ioannis Apostolakis
JCHE
2010
120views more  JCHE 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
AP2PC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing an Incentives' Mechanism for Truthful Feedback in Virtual Communities
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis