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Community and virtual community
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004Ellis, D.; Oldridge, R. and Vasconcelos, A. (2004). A Community and virtual community. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information and Science and Technology, Vol. 38 (pp.145- 186).
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Virtual Communities and Community Coordinator
2005 First International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, 2005The organization of resources/peers in communities is suggested to be an efficient way for resource discovery, but effectiveness of proposed communities depends on the active role and responsibility of a "community coordinator". Communities are pools of diverse peers/services sharing and controlling resources and which have "agreed" to co-operate to ...
Asif Akram, Rob Allan, Omer F. Rana
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Deceptive Communication in Virtual Communities
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005Virtual communities provide a suitable environment for those willing to deceive. With a large audience there are many potential targets and many opportunities. The narrow communication channel helps in being intentionally misunderstood, while also maintaining relative obscurity.
Christian Wagner 0001 +3 more
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Online and CD-Rom Review, 1998
The collocation ‘virtual community’ yokes together a hyper‐modern concept (the virtual, in the cyberspatial sense), and a more ancient one (community, in the sense of the quality of people holding something in common, and possessing a sense of common identity).
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The collocation ‘virtual community’ yokes together a hyper‐modern concept (the virtual, in the cyberspatial sense), and a more ancient one (community, in the sense of the quality of people holding something in common, and possessing a sense of common identity).
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Knowledge discovery in virtual community texts: Clustering virtual communities
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology, 2003Summary: Automatic knowledge discovery from texts (KDT) is proving to be a promising method for businesses today to deal with the overload of textual information. In this paper, we first explore the possibilities for KDT to enhance communication in virtual communities, and then we present a practical case study with real-life Internet data. The problem
Oudshoff, AM +3 more
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Virtual communities - a virtual session on virtual conferences
Behaviour & Information Technology, 2002Virtual communities supported by computers and communication facilities have existed for about two decades. Virtual meetings around the world became technically feasible once there was a sufficient number of satellites to relay data communication, and became commonplace at companies that could afford computer-mediated communication (CMC).
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Virtual communities, a typology
Web Intelligence, 2017Virtual communities are complex systems interweaving technical and human aspects. We propose here to identify usual functions provided by virtual communities and define a typology based on the common objects or goals shared by their users. The papers included in this special issue show some examples of research works lead in some of these categories of
Pierre Maret +2 more
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Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, 2009
As virtual communities (VCs) become prevalent and sophisticated, various kinds of VCs have emerged. Participation is a key factor that decides whether a VC can survive in long run. The more understanding about the members of the VC, the better promotion of the participation can be planned.
Eunyoung Cheon, JoongHo Ahn
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As virtual communities (VCs) become prevalent and sophisticated, various kinds of VCs have emerged. Participation is a key factor that decides whether a VC can survive in long run. The more understanding about the members of the VC, the better promotion of the participation can be planned.
Eunyoung Cheon, JoongHo Ahn
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Types of Virtual Communities and Virtual Brand Communities
2015Virtual communities have evolved considerably since they began. They have gone from being news groups and chat rooms to communities of people with strong bonds, diverse media for maintaining contact, and even with power in their sectors of interest. Virtual communities help their members overcome the sensation of isolation and allow them to maintain ...
Francisco J. Martínez-López +3 more
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Leadership in a virtual community
International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2010Recent research into online education in the USA reports that a majority of higher education institutions consider online education integral to their long-term goals. Online education has expanded the scope of traditional brick-and-mortar institutions to anytime access. Faculty who teach online can be drawn from a worldwide community of experts.
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