...Puneet Kaur; Amandeep Dhir; Risto Rajala; Yogesh Dwivedi Purpose The success and survival of any form of online community relies on the presence and active participation of its users. Hence, ensuring active user participation and retaining existing users is a key concern of the moderators...

...Rong‐An Shang; Yu‐Chen Chen; Chun‐Ju Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the social value of information in virtual investment communities and compare its effects with objective information value. A model including information quality, social comparison, and herding orientation...

...Chiu‐Ping Hsu; Yi‐Fang Chiang; Heng‐Chiang Huang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model of how technology‐enabled virtual experiences contribute to community members' online trust and engagement through inducing their community identification. It also seeks to examine...

...Luke Kien‐Weng Tan; Jin‐Cheon Na; Yin‐Leng Theng Purpose This study aims to investigate three common approaches – quantitative blog features analysis, content analysis, and community identification – to detect influence in the blogosphere (i.e. among blog posts). Design/methodology/approach...

...Edgar Pacheco Christine M.   Tilley . A Sense of Control: Virtual Communities for People with Mobility Impairments . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2009 . 279 pp. , ISBN: 9781843345213 Chandos Information Professional Series Price not reported © Emerald Group Publishing...

...Chao‐Min Chiu; Eric T.G. Wang; Fu‐Jong Shih; Yi‐Wen Fan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the motivations behind people's intentions to continue knowledge sharing (continuance intention) in open professional virtual communities. Design/methodology/approach Data collected from...

...Marthie de Kock Edited by Michael   Crandall and Karen E.   Fisher . Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology . Medford, NJ : Information Today   2009 . 185 pp. , ISBN: 9781573873734   US$59.00 (hard cover) ASIST Monograph Series...

... such as knowledge management, social networking, collaborative learning and communities of practice. Of these, communities of practice (CoPs) have become very important, especially studies focusing on how information is shared within and between organisations. However, there seems to be a lack of adequate technical...

...Isto Huvila; Kim Holmberg; Stefan Ek; Gunilla Widén‐Wulff Purpose Second Life is a user‐created online virtual world, which is a place where people with shared interests can meet and be together and share information. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Second Life communities...

...Wing Lam Chapter 4, Knowledge Workforce, gives an interesting perspective on the knowledge economy and the way in which networked communities provide a base of knowledge workers. Although it was briefly touched upon, the chapter would have benefited from more in‐depth treatment of outsourcing...

... boundaries, a model of relational variables was constructed from social networks to explain the characteristics of personal knowledge exchange in STC communities. Design/methodology/approach The analytical model designed for this research was based on social network theory. Egocentric interviews were...

...Wing Lam Overall, Networked Communities: Strategies for Digital Collaboration provides a good starting point for educators and postgraduate students new to the field of online communities. It is not the kind of book that one tends to read from cover to cover, but both most chapters...

...David Pauleen; Jocelyn Cranefield; Pak Yoong Purpose This paper aims to investigate how online communities of practice facilitate the embedding of personal professional knowledge in a complex online environment. Design/methodology/approach This research consisted of exploratory, interpretivist...

...Julia A. Hersberger; Adam L. Murray; Kevin S. Rioux Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an emergent conceptual framework for examining virtual communities. Design/methdodology/approach Established theories and models of community, social networks, information exchange...

...Lan Anh Tran By looking at marginal communities in both the developed and developing world, the several authors in this collection are able to convey an emerging global view of how ICTs might be employed as tools of empowerment and capacity building through networking. The success stories...

...Philip Calvert © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Knowledge management Communities The concept of communities of practice (CoPs) has become popular in a variety of academic fields, including organisational studies and education. In the broad area of information...

...Jih‐Hsin Tang; Heng‐Li Yang Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between users' role and users' perception of requirements in a web‐based community of practice. Design/methodology/approach Online survey and social network analysis were adopted in this study...