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...
Nishikant Kapoor, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terv...
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...
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...
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...
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...