: Owing to the recent technical advances in the computing and mobile communications domain, the world of online virtual communities is experiencing a phenomenal growth and ever-inc...
Pravin Pawar, Julien Subercaze, Pierre Maret, Bert...
Managers and group leaders of a community may not have enough information to help them direct the community development. In this paper, we adopt social network analysis, graph the...
Given the fracturing of virtual and physical spaces, young people are less involved in their local surrounding spaces. Yet, investing the community space is related to sense of co...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
We have integrated technologies related to virtual social interaction, e.g. virtual environments, visual simulations, and lifelike characters. In our previous efforts to integrate...