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HICSS
2003
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Collaboration Platforms for Virtual Student Communities
Since its inception, the Internet has served as a virtual meeting place for people sharing common interests. These electronically supported interest groups are nowadays called Vir...
Petra Schubert, Michael Koch
HICSS
2005
IEEE
162views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
An Agent-Based Approach to Study Virtual Learning Communities
This paper focuses on agent-based approach to study the relationship between the individual behavior of participants and the overall development of a virtual community, to help pe...
Yiwen Zhang, Mohan Tanniru
HICSS
2005
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Business Models for Mobile Communities
Communities (especially virtual communities) of Interest have been the focus of substantial discussion in academic literature. This paper addresses Communities of Interest within ...
Petra Schubert, J. Felix Hampe
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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Bounded in Cyberspace: An Empirical Model of Self-Regulation in Virtual Communities
This article aims to focus on self-regulation mechanisms that are exercised by virtual communities in order to maintain their boundaries of autonomy while directing behavior of th...
Karine Barzilai-Nahon, Seev Neumann
HICSS
2006
IEEE
124views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Gatekeeping in Virtual Communities: On Politics of Power in Cyberspace
Gatekeeping/Information Control is exercised frequently and daily in virtual communities. Gatekeeping exists in four different levels: Regulators, service providers, communitiesâ€...
Karine Barzilai-Nahon
ISCC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Towards business model and technical platform for the service oriented context-aware mobile virtual communities
: Owing to the recent technical advances in the computing and mobile communications domain, the world of online virtual communities is experiencing a phenomenal growth and ever-inc...
Pravin Pawar, Julien Subercaze, Pierre Maret, Bert...
ICEIS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Successful Virtual Communities
With the multiplication of communication medium, the increasing multi-partner global organizations, the remote working tendencies, dynamic teams, pervasive or ubiquitous computing ...
Julien Subercaze, Christo El-Morr, Pierre Maret, A...
HICSS
2009
IEEE
101views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Virtual Communities: A Bibliometric Analysis
Virtual communities are a popular phenomenon today. They are significantly altering the specifics of how people work, spend their free time and interact socially. Moreover, they h...
Mikko O. J. Laine
HICSS
2009
IEEE
109views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
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A Life Cycle Model of Virtual Communities
The importance of virtual communities is well established in Information Systems (IS) research. A significant number of studies on this topic have focused on investigating motivat...
Elham Mousavidin, Lakshmi Goel
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