This paper presents the first comprehensive exploration of the largest Chinese online knowledge sharing communityBaidu Knows. With analyzing 5.2 millions questions and 2.7 million...
Abstract: The article presents a model of the structural properties of virtual communities and the information they can access. It argues that a large part of the information – a...
Community networks emerged in North America during the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the past three decades, paradigms for networked information, services, and collaboration ...
We have been investigating the efficiency and effectiveness of e-government in rural communities with respect to critical attributes such as Internet access technology. In this pa...
Weblog has quickly evolved into a new information and knowledge dissemination channel. Yet it is not easy to discover weblog communities through keyword search. The main contribut...