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Stickiness of Commercial Virtual Communities

open access: yes
The recent merging of the electronic market arena has enabled the creation of new environments in which consumers can interact with each other online – Commercial Virtual Communities (CVC).
Verkuijlen,Marcel   +3 more
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Recreating community: a virtual case study.

open access: yes, 1999
The application of the adjective "virtual" to a variety of physical concepts - classroom, company, corporation, library, office - has become common as organisations create new means of conducting business.
Hall, Hazel
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Providing Social Scaffolding for Effective Agent Communities

open access: yes, 2013
AAAI Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation and Control: From Inter-agent to Groups, Edmonton, Canada, 2002This paper explores the general landscape of virtual communities and reflects upon their relevance to their agent community counterparts.
O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.)   +1 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing Virtual Communities

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2004
Debbie Garber
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TOWARDS QUANTITATIVE TOOLS FOR ANALYSING QUALITATIVE PROPERTIES OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2004
During the last decade, the advance of Internet has enabled the emergence of previously nonexistent type of human social structures - virtual 'online' communities.
Duje Bonacci
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