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Title Virtual Community Building and the Information Society : Current and Future Directions
Published IGI Global 2011

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Contents 1. Virtual community building and the information society: current and future directions / Christo El Morr [and others] -- 2. The creation and management of online brand communities / Paola Falcone -- 3. Coordinating nomadic evaluation practices by supporting the emergence of virtual communities / Marianne Laurent -- 4. An integrated methodology to detect the evolution of virtual organizational communities / Marco De Maggio and Francesca Grippa -- 5. How e-Learning experience enhances the social presence in community of practice: an empirical analysis / Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea, Radu Mogos and Maria-Iuliana Dascalu -- 6. Online communities: a historically based examination of how social formations online fulfill criteria for community / Jakob Linaa Jensen -- 7. Functionalities and facets of group awareness in collaborative online laboratories / Christophe Gravier and Michael Callaghan -- 8. Towards a participative platform for cultural texts translators / Aurľien Bénel and Philippe Lacour -- 9. Virtual communities in a services innovation context: a service science and mereotopology based method and tool / Florie Bugeaud and Eddie Soulier -- 10. Semantically linking virtual communities / Rajendra Akerkar and Terje Aaberge -- 11. Identification vs. self-verification in virtual communities (VC): theoretical gaps and design implications / Kathy Ning Shen -- 12. Freedom, control, security: current and future implications for Internet governance / Martin Hans Knahl and Geoff Cox
Summary Annotation Virtual Community Building and the Information Society: Current and Future Directions offers a holistic approach to virtual communities, providing relevant theoretical frameworks and presenting the latest empirical research on virtual technology, infrastructures, content modeling, knowledge modeling, content management, context awareness, mobility, security and trust. It also explores the social impact and applications of virtual communities, providing valuable insights for professionals, researchers, and managers in fields including information systems, computer science, knowledge management, software engineering, healthcare, business, information and communication sciences, education, and sociology who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of virtual communities in the information society
Subject Electronic villages (Computer networks)
Online social networks.
Information society.
Electronic villages (Computer networks)
Information society.
Online social networks.
Form Electronic book
Author Maret, Pierre.
ISBN 1283246937
9781283246934