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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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Evolution of Virtual Communities
2009As the capabilities of technologies are enhanced and users become diversified, virtual communities have evolved from BBS to a new phenomena—virtual world. This study describes the evolution of VCs in three generations by three dimensions. Facing new challenges in new VC generation, VC platform providers need to adopt new approaches. The authors discuss
Eunyoung Cheon, JoongHo Ahn
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Minitrack "Virtual Communities"
2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), 2007Virtual Communities have been studied from a variety of perspectives. Examples range from communities of interest to communities of practice, from gaming communities to communities of transaction. More specifically, community building and community management may be factors of key success in the digital economy.
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The Internet communication environment (ICE)-virtual university as virtual community
International Conference on Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings., 2003Our experiences and research in the field have shown, that students working collaboratively are more successful than students working alone. Therefore, it should be a logical consequence to install collaboration as key factor in a distance study environment.
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Precursors of trust in virtual health communities: A hierarchical investigation
Information Manager (The), 2018Lack of trust can have a negative influence on consumers’ willingness to share and adopt information in virtual health communities. However, not much is known about factors that influence the development of trust in such communities.
M. Mpinganjira
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Engagement in sports virtual brand communities
Journal of business research, 2018The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of sports sponsorship in virtual brand communities (VBCs) on consumers' engagement within these communities.
M. Alonso‐Dos‐Santos +4 more
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Net-Surfers Don’t Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities
Networks in the Global Village, 2018B. Wellman, Milena Gulia
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