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...
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...
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...
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
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...