Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary TheoriesRelease Date: March, 2012. Copyright © 2012. 451 pages.
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In Stock. Have it as soon as Jun. 24 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7, ISBN13: 9781466603127, ISBN10: 1466603127, EISBN13: 9781466603134  | | TopDescriptionWith the power to gather people with similar interests together, virtual communities have gained attention by not only practitioners, but researchers, as well. Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories offers in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation. This book appeals to those interested not only in virtual communities, but also in virtual worlds, virtual teams, and even online shopping. Virtual community researchers, as well as researchers from diverse fields--computer science, information systems, psychology, sociology, and telecommunications--will find valuable motivation theories discussed in this book. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Kevin Y. Wang (Butler University, USA)
This chapter explores the theoretical and conceptual assumptions underlying the notion of virtual community. Drawing from relevant literature, the author first exami...
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Antonella Mascio (University of Bologna, Italy)
The chapter starts with a short introduction to the complex phenomenon of Virtual Communities as part of media convergence process. The aim of the chapter is the ana...
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Luiz Antonio Joia (Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
This chapter demonstrates usage of a Web-based participative learning environment, which has enabled graduate students in e-commerce classes on the Executive Master...
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Joana Sócrates Dantas (Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Regina Melo Silveira (Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Description of online digital content is currently extremely necessary to facilitate a diverse amount of resource sharing over the internet. Many times, content is s...
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Gibrán Rivera Gonzalez (University of Sheffield, UK), Andrew Cox (University of Sheffield, UK)
To be sustainable, online communities must have the ability to attract and retain members, who in turn must be willing to participate by giving their time, knowledge...
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Michael R. Weeks (The University of Tampa, USA)
This chapter proposes the narrative network analysis methodology for application in the examination of online communities. The narrative network analysis provides a...
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Ben Li (University of Oulu, Finland)
This chapter outlines an infrastructural approach to understanding virtual communities (VCs) and applies it to a novel set of VCs. The infrastructural approach expli...
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Sergey Rybas (Capital University, USA)
Problematizing the historical, philosophical, and social foundations of online communities, this project lays out a theoretical framework of subjective performance i...
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Weiyu Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
The purpose of this work is to develop a theoretical framework to examine virtual community participation using the concept of subaltern public spheres. The theory o...
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Jonathan Bishop (Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems, UK)
The rise of social networking services have furthered the proliferation of online communities, transferring the power of controlling access to content from often one...
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Peter D. Gibbings (University of Southern Queensland, Australia), Lyn M. Brodie (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Higher education today calls for transformative rather than transmissive education, and educators need to be particularly concerned with facilitating learners to ful...
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Jörgen Skågeby (Stockholm University, Sweden)
The purpose of this conceptual chapter is to present and argue for a cross-disciplinary and systemic approach to the examination of motivations for sharing digital m...
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Kam Hou Vat (University of Macau, Macau)
The chapter investigates an actionable model of virtual participation for learning communities, in the context of holistic student development in college education....
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Stella W. Tian (University of Science and Technology (USTC), China)
Drawing upon Jasperson, Carter, and Zmud’s feature-centric view of technology (Jasperson, Carter, & Zmud, 2005) and Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s three dimensions of social...
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Xiao-Ling Jin (Shanghai University, China), Matthew K.O. Lee (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Christy M. K. Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong), Zhongyun (Phil) Zhou (Tongji University, China)
With the advent of the Internet, so too came several new means by which people share and acquire information. One such method is the use of virtual communities. Virt...
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Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania), Vasile Bodea (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania), Ion Gh. Rosca (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania), Radu Mogos (Academy of Economic Studies, Romania), Maria-Iuliana Dascalu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)
The aim of this chapter is to explore the application of data mining for analyzing participatory behavior of the students enrolled in an online two-year Master degre...
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Robert N. Spicer (Rutgers University, USA & DeSales University, USA)
Reactions to new media vary from utopian pronouncements about their democratizing potential to fear about social deviance. The news media spend a great deal of time...
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Jonathan Marshall (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Death strikes everywhere, even online. Death poses problems personally, existentially, and culturally, and is potentially destructive to person and group. Yet many s...
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Grzegorz Majewski (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Abel Usoro (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
Immersive virtual worlds such as Second Life have recently gained much attention from education and business because of their adaptability to address real world chal...
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TopTopics Covered- Behavior theories
- Belonging or inclusion
- Community participation frameworks
- Gift economy perspective
- Interpersonal relationship
- Lurking and active participation
- Power Dynamics
- Process virtualization
- Social capital
- Social psychological perspective
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyDr. Honglei Li is currently a senior lecturer of Enterprise Information Systems at School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences, Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University, she worked as a lecturer at School of Business & Economics, Swansea University, United Kingdom. She received her BS and M.Phil. in computational mathematics and information systems, respectively, from Nanjing University in China. Later she received her PhD in information systems from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests include virtual communities, virtual worlds, electronic business, business process management, and information systems project management. Being in the field of information systems for many years, she is especially enthusiastic about virtual communities and virtual worlds but keeps a very keen interest in enterprise systems analysis and development. Her two research areas have inspired her to work on both areas in parallel. Her research papers have been published in academic journals such as Information & Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and International Journal of Electronic Business. She has also presented her research papers in many international conferences including the American Conference on Information Systems and the International Conference on Information Systems. |
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