...Hengyi Fu; Sanghee Oh Purpose This study aims to investigate the nature and evolution of online communities in the early stages of their life cycles. The authors analyze the topics of discussions in an online community to identify issues related to community development. The authors also compare...

... 06 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information seeking Immigration Online communities Iran Telegram Social media Today, over 13% of the US population was born outside the country (Radford and Noe-Bustamante...

... contexts. Whereas SNS are preferred for everyday life purposes, question-answering services are used for leisure as well as academic needs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Forums Educational domain Online communities Social information behaviour Social media analysis Social web...

...Hamid R. Jamali; Bill Russell; David Nicholas; Anthony Watkinson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which academics are engaged with online communities for research purposes, and the research activities, platforms and tools associated with these communities...