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JECR
2002
144views more  JECR 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Enabling E-Commerce Growth through the Social Construction of a Virtual Community's Culture
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...
Alexander Y. Yap
ICIS
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Evolution of a virtual community: understanding design issues through a longitudinal study
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 ...
Arvind Malhotra, Sanjay Gosain, Alexander Hars
HICSS
2005
IEEE
191views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
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...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards an Understanding of Security Concerns within Communities
—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,...
DGO
2007
133views Education» more  DGO 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Law and governance and virtual worlds
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...
Ethan Katsh, Alan Gaitenby, Norman K. Sondheimer