Virtual communities and professional learning across a distributed remote membership
, 2002 Headteachers, or Principals, of schools work in isolation from each other yet share common practice and domain of leadership and management. They exhibit the characteristics of a community of practice yet are remote from other members of their community.
Bradshaw, Pete +2 more
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Virtual Leadership: Required Competencies for Effective Leaders [PDF]
, 2010 There are countless books, articles, and resources available which attempt to identify the competencies and qualities of effective leaders. Traditionally, leaders have been at the center of a community, be it work, church, or social groups.
Johnson, Kurt
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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice [PDF]
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and ...
Alexis Barlow, Chris Kimble, Feng Li
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Emotional Support, Perceived Corporate Ownership and Skepticism toward Out-groups in Virtual Communities [PDF]
, 2015 Consumers often look to virtual communities for knowledge and support in overcoming the challenges they face. This article examines the role of emotional support in virtual communities that help participants to cope with personal challenges such as ...
Johnson, Devon, Lowe, Ben
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Design preferences of U.S. and Chinese Virtual Communities: an exploratory study [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the design preferences of virtual communities in two cultural groups – the U.S. and China. The design preferences studied are web design, tools used and types of virtual communities preferred.
Lin, H., Tan, F. B., Urquhart, C.
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Social Networking and Transnational Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2011 Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become a key component of users’ experience of the internet. Whilst much has been made of the social dynamics of online SNS, the influence of the structures and operations of these sites – and the business models
David Kreps
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Education Unleashed: Participatory Culture, Education, and Innovation in Second Life [PDF]
, 2008 Part of the Volume on the Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and LearningWhile virtual worlds share common technologies and audiences with games, they possess many unique characteristics. Particularly when compared to massively multiplayer online
Cory Ondrejka
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THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ON ENHANCING HEDONISTIC CONSUMER ATTITUDES
Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing, 2013 Paper presents conceptual issues connected with virtual communities impact on hedonistic consumer attitudes on the base of scholarly literature and secondary sources such as research reports.
Radosław Mącik, Monika Nalewajek
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Virtual Socializing: Its Motives and Spread [PDF]
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.
Janardhanan, Neethu +4 more
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Virtual Environments as Spaces of Symbolic Construction and Cultural Identity. Latin-American Virtual Communities [PDF]
, 1998 The aim of this work is to understand the sociopsychological\ud and cultural realities of virtual communities as live spaces of meeting and high interaction framed within the Latin American context.
Nocera, Jose L. Abdelnour
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