... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social capital Virtual community Online health community Text classification Random coefficient model RQ2. How do the effects of social capital on patients' social support acquisition evolve over time? H1a...

... virtual products. Furthermore, two technological factors, interactivity and sociability, are found to affect social presence, and two social factors, social ties and social identity, are found to affect user engagement. User engagement Virtual community Social presence MMORPG Virtual product...

... to the have-nots. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – In this research, the authors propose a synergistic model that adopts the perspective of heroism and social exchange, and test it with the data collected from a virtual community. To test the proposed research model...

...Junjie Zhou; Meiyun Zuo; Yan Yu; Wen Chai Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the environment of a virtual community (users’ interactions inside and outside of a community which are defined as the fundamental and supplemental interaction (FI and SI), respectively...

...Fu‐ren Lin; Hui‐yi Huang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: why Google Answers and Yahoo! Kimo Knowledge+, both virtual communities built on users asking and answering questions with different rewarding mechanisms, have different outcomes. Design/methodology/approach...