Virtual Socializing: Its Motives and Spread
Virtual communities constitute an important attribute through which social dialogues are mediated. The emergence of online communities is the outcome of the prevalence of web based technologies.
Rahul, Thoranath +4 more
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Essays on network dynamics and informational value of virtual communities
, 2008 textPublic press and companies have increasingly strong interests in the impact on businesses brought about by virtual communities. In recent years, virtual communities have become significant sources of information for consumers and businesses by ...
Chen, Hsuan-wei, 1980-
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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From physical workplaces to virtual communities: extending the job embeddedness construct and predicting digital makers' continuance participation. [PDF]
Front PsycholBi Z, Liu X, Yang J.
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Virtual Communities of Practice: \A Mechanism for Effective Knowledge Retrieval in MNCs
, 2008 In geographically dispersed organizations, like multinational corporations (MNCs), contextual gaps exist between senders and receivers of knowledge. Employee socialization resulting from physical proximity facilitates contextualization of the transferred
Ritter, Thomas, Gammelgaard, Jens
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Mapping Characteristics, Applications, and Implementation Challenges of Virtual Communities in Cancer Care: NASSS Framework-Informed Scoping Review. [PDF]
J Med Internet ResDong J, He Y, Tang L.
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The Effect of Members' Satisfaction with a Virtual Community on Member Participation
The authors develop a four-dimensional scale to measure members'satisfaction with virtual communities. The dimensions consist ofmembers' satisfaction with member-member interactions,organizer-member interactions, organizer-community interactions, andthe ...
Langerak, F. +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of student sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI)‐based education by integrating sentiment analysis techniques with statistical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations and decision tree modelling, alongside qualitative grounded theory analysis.
Volkan Duran +2 more
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Drivers of engagement in virtual communities of practice: a qualitative study of Australian pharmacists' perceptions and experiences. [PDF]
Int J Clin PharmYabeyu AB +7 more
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