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Evolution of Virtual Communities

2009
As 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), 2007
Virtual 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 nature of virtual communities

AI & SOCIETY, 2006
The impressive development of electronic communication techniques has given rise to virtual communities. The nature of these computer-mediated communities has been the subject of much recent debate. Are they ordinary social groups in electronic form, or are they fundamentally different from traditional communities?
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The Internet communication environment (ICE)-virtual university as virtual community

International Conference on Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings., 2003
Our 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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Communications through Virtual Technologies

2002
The evolution of technology in support to the Knowledge Society of the years 2000s will be driven by three dominant trends: a) increase of richness and completeness of communications towards "Immersive Virtual Telepresence" (IVT), including an increased attention to the aspects of human perception and of person-machine interaction; b) increasingly ...
VATALARO, FRANCESCO, LORETI, PIERPAOLO, Lunghi, M, Riva, G, Davide, F.   +4 more
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Virtual Communities

Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2001
Thomas Schoberth, Gregor Schrott
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Documenting virtual communities

Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Systems documentation Marshaling new technological forces: building a corporate, academic, and user-oriented triangle - SIGDOC '96, 1996
Scott R. Tilley, Dennis B. Smith
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Understanding the Sense of Community and Continuance Intention in Virtual Communities: The Role of Commitment and Type of Community

Social Science Computer Review, 2021
Baltasar Gonzalez-Anta, Virginia Orengo, Ana Zornoza   +2 more
exaly  

Virtual classrooms and communities

Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work : the integration challenge the integration challenge - GROUP '97, 1997
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Afraid of engagement? Towards an understanding of engagement in virtual communities of practice

Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 2021
Aurore Haas, Stefano Borzillo
exaly