...Niki Panteli; Lin Yan; Petros Chamakiotis Purpose In this paper, the aim is to study virtual presence in travel blogs. The paper seeks to argue that though some conceptualization of virtual presence has been made in the literature, this only took account of one's presence among a community...

...Terrie Lynn Thompson Purpose This paper seeks to explore how workers engage in informal online communities for work‐learning. Although online communities may facilitate learning and knowledge creation, much of the literature is situated in formal online courses, suggesting a need to better...

... methods and social network analysis to build a multi‐layered view of completely online group and community development. Findings Completely online group formation is explicated as a socio‐technical system. The paper identifies themes of tool uptake and use, and patterns of interaction that accompany...

...Noriko Hara; Khe Foon Hew Purpose The purpose of this study is twofold: to examine the types of activity that nurses undertake on an online community of practice (APN‐l) as well as the types of knowledge that nurses share with one another; and to examine the factors that sustain knowledge sharing...

.../methodology/approach The paper explains the outcomes from a three‐year long Action Research (AR) study into online participation utilising a purpose built Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based networking tool. Findings The paper finds that the overall notion of trust is deconstructed...