: The Web 2.0 can be regarded as an evolutionary process of medial differentiation. Infinite online communities are emerging and disappearing. It seems that a race has started in s...
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
Online communities (OLCs) are gatherings of like -minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. Creating such communities is not a big challenge; sustaining m...
Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terv...
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...