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IJWBC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
The 'WeTube' in YouTube - creating an online community through video sharing
: Video sharing has become a growing social practice, with YouTube being the predominant online video sharing site. Most of the research concerning YouTube’s social impact has be...
Dana Rotman, Jennifer Preece
ICWSM
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth of "social computing" services, or online communities where users contribute content in various forms, including ...
Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye
CRIWG
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities
The paper describes a further development of the design of a motivational visualization encouraging participation in an online community. The new design overcomes shortcomings in p...
Lingling Sun, Julita Vassileva
HICSS
2010
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Analysis of Professional Forums in the United States Army and Hybrid Communities of Practice in the Civilian Secto
Communities of practice (COPs) have been around since the founding of the first social networks many millennia ago. Organizations around the world over the last two decades have l...
Jon Brickey, Steven Walczak
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Everyday favors: a case study of a local online gift exchange system
This paper focuses on online gift exchange in a setting where online and offline interactions are tightly intertwined and most of the exchanges require face-to-face interaction to...
Emmi Suhonen, Airi Lampinen, Coye Cheshire, Judd A...