Biometrics in virtual communities and digital governments -- Building trust in virtual communities -- Business advantage of community knowledge -- Business applications of virtual communities -- Cancer patient-to-patient online discussion groups -- Codes of ethics in virtual communities -- Collaboration, communication, and learning in a virtual community -- Communicating in synchronous text-based virtual learning communities -- Converting online community visitors into online communities -- Copyright protection in virtual communities through digital watermarking -- Copyright protection through digital watermarking -- Creating telepresence in virtual mediated environments -- Cross-disciplinary learning in virtual teams -- Cross-disciplinary virtual design teams -- Cultural diversity and the digital divide -- Cultural presence -- Culture in virtual communities -- Cyber rhetoric
Summary
"This encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies provides a much needed integrated overview of all the critical concepts, technologies and issues in the area of virtual communities"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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