This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
: To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, includ...
Social network-based systems usually suffer from two major limitations: they tend to rely on a single data source (e.g. email traffic), and the form of network patterns is often p...
Yevgeniy Eugene Medynskiy, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Aym...
In recent years, peer-to-peer systems have become more and more popular, especially with some successful applications like Napter, Kazaa and edoney. However, how to motivate user ...
We explored whether Fisher and Durrance’s [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on informati...