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Continuous content contribution in virtual community: The role of status-standing on motivational mechanisms

Decision Support Systems, 2020
A central concern for the long-term vibrancy of virtual communities is how to effectively motivate continuous contributions from community members.
Lingfeng Dong, Liqiang Huang, J. Hou, Yuan Liu   +3 more
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Knowledge discovery in virtual community texts: Clustering virtual communities

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology, 2003
Summary: 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, Bosloper, IE, Klos, TB, Spaanenburg, L   +3 more
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Virtual Community

Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2014
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Virtual Community

Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. 2nd Ed., 2018
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Establishing a Virtual Community of Practice in Simulation: The Value of Social Media

Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, 2018
Summary Statement Professional development opportunities are not readily accessible for most simulation educators, who may only connect with simulation experts at periodic and costly conferences.
Brent Thoma, Victoria Brazil, Jesse Spurr, J. Palaganas, W. Eppich, V. Grant, A. Cheng   +6 more
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Psychological contract model for knowledge collaboration in virtual community of practice: An analysis based on the game theory

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2018
In virtual communities of practice, many participants use their knowledge to achieve a common goal based on cooperation, and the key to such cooperation is knowledge collaboration.
Wei Wei, Jun Wang, Xuanyi Chen, J. Yang, Xiaowei Min   +4 more
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Virtual Community

2005
The development of commerce on the Internet based on virtual communities has become one of the most successful business models in the world today. In this chapter, we analyze the concept of the virtual community, describe marketing strategy implications and guidelines for its management, and suggest some alternative strategies and technologies which ...
Carlos Flavian, Miguel Guinaliu
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Virtual community

ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 1998
SIGGROUP is about more than computer supported cooperative work. It is also concerned with how people use computer networks to obtain sociability, support, a sense of belonging, and all kinds of information 1 .
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Community-Based Cultural Tailoring of Virtual Agents

International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020
Culturally informed design for virtual agents has been shown to positively impact health outcomes when tailored to target audiences. We present a participatory design methodology for culturally tailoring virtual agents.
Teresa K. O'Leary, Elizabeth Stowell, Everlyne Kimani, Dhaval Parmar, S. Ólafsson, Jessica A. Hoffman, A. Parker, M. Paasche-Orlow, T. Bickmore   +8 more
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Virtual Communities

2009
In recent years, computer-mediated communication has been the enabling factor for connecting people to one another and establishing “virtual relationships” (Igbaria, 1999; Johnston, Raizada, & Cronin, 1996). Virtual communities evolved as users of the early networks utilized them mainly for informal rather than business-related communication. These
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