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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Exploring characteristics of collective content: a field study with four user communities
People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper presents an empirical field study of four communities on how they interact with collec...
Hannu Toivola, Kaisa Väänänen-Vaini...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
115views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Strategies Employed By Participants In Virtual Learning Communities
This paper examines the learning behavior of online students in an asynchronous learning environment. We employ the theoretical lens of an online community of inquiry, to understa...
James Waters, Susan Gasson
HICSS
2007
IEEE
141views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Knowledge Construction in an Online Community of Inquiry
This paper examines sustained, socially-situated engagement in online learning communities. We propose three levels of engagement that are examined through an empirical study of j...
James Waters, Susan Gasson
HICSS
2007
IEEE
192views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
An Online Community as a New Tribalism: The World of Warcraft
Massive, multiplayer online role-playing games foster rich social environments. Within the game, players can interact with other players, make friends, create and cultivate new on...
Thomas W. Brignall III, Thomas L. Van Valey
ACMICEC
2004
ACM
160views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2004»
14 years 25 days ago
A shared service terminology for online service provisioning
An extensive literature research in the fields of IT and business science reveals that service-related terms as service and e-service have multiple interpretations within busines...
Ziv Baida, Jaap Gordijn, Borys Omelayenko