With hundreds of millions of participants, social media services have become commonplace. Unlike a traditional social network service, a microblogging network like Twitter is a hy...
Online communities have grown to be an alternative form of communication for many people. This widespread growth and influence of the members of these communities in shaping the d...
Ebrahim Bagheri, M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Reza Zafaran...
Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life bec...
Eric Gleave, Howard T. Welser, Thomas M. Lento, Ma...
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...