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CANDT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
The community is where the rapport is -- on sense and structure in the youtube community
YouTube is a video sharing repository, enabling users to post, share and discuss videos. Its stated mission is to create "an online video community"; however, YouTube is...
Dana Rotman, Jennifer Golbeck, Jennifer Preece
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Managing nomadic knowledge: a case study of the European social forum
In this paper we portray a specific type of knowledge which we term ‘nomadic knowledge’. It is required periodically by different actors and travels along foreseeable paths be...
Saqib Saeed, Volkmar Pipek, Markus Rohde, Volker W...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
WETICE
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Towards an Evaluation Methodology for the Development of Research-Oriented Virtual Communities
A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Webenabled interactions, e.g., within a Website. Whil...
Janet Ho, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Mark H. Chignell
HICSS
2006
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Projecting Computational Sense of Self: A Study of Transition in a Chronic Illness Online Community
We report on analysis of discussions in an online community of people with chronic illness using socio-cognitively motivated, automatically produced semantic spaces. The analysis ...
Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Jim Warren, Debbie K...