| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) |
| Contents |
Mixing metaphors: sociological and psychological perspectives on virtual communities / Kevin Y. Wang -- Asynchronous text-based community: proposals for the analysis / Antonella Mascio -- A web-based e-commerce learning community in Brazil / Luiz Antonio Joia -- Virtual communities as contributors for digital objects metadata generation / Joana Sócrates Dantas, Regina Melo Silveira -- Redefining participation in online community: some neglected topics / Gibrán Rivera Gonzalez, Andrew Cox -- Toward an understanding of online community participation through narrative network analysis / Michael R. Weeks -- Toward an infrastructural approach to understanding participation in virtual communities / Ben Li -- Community embodied: validating the subjective performance of an online class / Sergey Rybas -- Virtual communities as subaltern public spheres: a theoretical development and an application to the Chinese internet / Weiyu Zhang -- The psychology of trolling and lurking: the role of defriending and gamification for increasing participation in online communities using seductive narratives / Jonathan Bishop -- The importance of focal awareness to learning in virtual communities / Peter D. Gibbings, Lyn M. Brodie -- A systemic approach to online sharing motivations: a cross-disciplinary synthesis of rhetorical analysis and gift research / Jörgen Skågeby -- Scenario-planning for learning in communities: a virtual participation model to support holistic student development / Kam Hou Vat -- Continued participating knowledge sharing in online social network communities: service features, social capital facilitators, and impact on motivations / Stella W. Tian -- The continued use of a virtual community: an information adoption perspective / Xiao-Ling Jin [and others] -- Mining student participatory behavior in virtual learning communities / Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea [and others] -- Social net/work(ing) on Facebook: an analysis of audiences, producers, and immaterial laborers / Robert N. Spicer -- Culture, disorder, and death in an online world / Jonathan Marshall -- Virtual communities of practice in immersive virtual worlds: an empirical study on participants' involvement, motives, and behaviour / Grzegorz Majewski, Abel Usoro |
| Summary |
"This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation, covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Interpersonal relationship |
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Behavior theories |
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Power dynamics |
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Social psychological perspective |
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Social capital |
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Community participation frameworks |
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Process virtualization |
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Belonging or inclusion |
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Gift economy perspective |
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Lurking and active participation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed May 8, 2012) |
| Subject |
Electronic villages (Computer networks)
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects
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Computer networks -- Social aspects
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Electronic villages (Computer networks)
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Internet -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Li, Honglei, 1976 October-
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IGI Global
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| ISBN |
9781466603134 |
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1466603135 |
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