This research paper investigates the elements that encouraged people to visit and actively participate in a virtual community, and eventually leading its guests to purchase from i...
Although the potential impacts of virtual communities have been widely recognized in business and academia, little research has been done to provide guidelines for design of such ...
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
—This paper documents some of the socio-technical issues involved in developing security measures for a community environment, looking at the users of a wireless mesh network dep...
Sara Bury, Johnathan Ishmael, Nicholas J. P. Race,...
This panel will survey the virtual world phenomena, introduce the governance issues that arise there and suggests why the digital government community can both contribute to virtu...