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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2005
ACM
Online communities (OLCs) are gatherings of like -minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. Creating such communities is not a big challenge; sustaining m...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2006
IEEE
A comparative case study used content analysis to observe the emergence of voluntary online learning communities in two blended courses. The study developed an interaction-based a...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2005
Springer
Abundance of user contributions does not necessarily indicate sustainability of an online community. On the contrary, excessive contributions in the systems may result in informati...
HCI
2007
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Cooperation and competition are important subjects in social and economical studies. Similar dynamics exists in large-scale online communities. In this paper, we present a quantita...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
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...