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Drivers of interdependence and network convergence in social networks in virtual communities

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2015
This study examined drivers of interdependence and network convergence in social networks in virtual communities.This study used weak/strong tie theory for developing hypotheses.Needs for affiliation, altruism, and social intelligence are related to interdependence and network convergence.Some of the interactions are related to interdependence and ...
Ching-I Teng
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Virtual Social Networks

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2009
Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual learning or problem solving.Virtual communities in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) have evolved into active social networks, formulating an alternative social existence and this ...
Sunanda Sangwan, Chong Guan, Judy A. Siguaw   +2 more
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Virtual private social networks

Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy, 2011
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are having a significant impact on the social life of many people - even beyond the millions of people that use them directly. These websites usually allow users to present a profile of themselves through a long list of very detailed information. However, even when such SNSs have advanced privacy policies, users are often
CONTI, MAURO, Hasani A, Crispo B.
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Social networks in the virtual science laboratory

Communications of the ACM, 2002
Communicating scientists' behavior, as well as their ideas, computer-supported cooperative work technology fosters virtual social networks of far-flung collaborators pursuing mutual interests and experiments.
George Chin Jr., James D. Myers, David Hoyt   +2 more
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Social network analysis in virtual environments

Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 2009
Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) allow users to navigate and explore the environment as well as interact with other users. The interaction within these environments is often text-based using Internet relay chat (IRC) and related systems. IRC poses a difficulty for researchers looking to analyze and interpret the communicative interaction since ...
Devan Rosen, Margaret Corbit
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Social Networking Tools in Virtual Reference

International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 2015
The rapid advancements in web and availability of growing number of free social networking tools have greatly influenced the present day communication mechanisms. These tools have provided cheaper, instant and faster methods of communicating information irrespective of geographical and time barriers.
Nadim Akhtar Khan, Huma Shafiq, Sabiha Zehra Rizvi, Samah Mushtaq   +3 more
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Virtual private social networks and a facebook implementation

ACM Transactions on the Web, 2013
The popularity of Social Networking Sites (SNS) is growing rapidly, with the largest sites serving hundreds of millions of users and their private information. The privacy settings of these SNSs do not allow the user to avoid sharing some information (e.g., name and profile picture) with all the other users.
CONTI, MAURO, Arbnor Hasani, Bruno Crispo   +2 more
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Virtual Social Network Communities

CALICO Journal, 2012
Although often neglected in language textbooks and classrooms, sociopragmatic and multiliteracy skills are crucial elements in language learning that language educators should not disregard. This article investigates whether a social networking community (SNC) website such as Facebook can be exploited in the context of an intermediate foreign language
Geraldine Blattner, Melissa Fiori
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The Structure of Organizational Virtual Social Networks

2014
Organizational virtual social networks (OVSN) reshape social structures due to their ability to strengthen social ties, to change power relations and to enable new forms of cooperation. Research in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has led to various approaches that analyze the impact of OVSN on organizations in terms of structure and ...
Debora Bobsin, Norberto Hoppen
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Contextualizations in a Social Network. Context in Social networks and virtual communities

Revue d'intelligence artificielle, 2005
This paper proposes a context-based approach of social networks and virtual communities in the enterprise area. We point out that making context explicit it is possible to provide a global picture of the main aspects of social networks. A first result of this study is that the explicit consideration of contexts--especially shared contexts--could ...
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