What is Virtual Community

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A group of individuals who communicate by electronic means such as the Internet, who share interests, without needing to be in the same place, or having physical contact, or belonging to a particular ethnic group. Learn more in: Social Networks as a Tool to Improve the Life Quality of Chronic Patients and Their Relatives

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A Virtual Community consists of a group of people who ‘meet’ using information technology means in order to achieve a goal while they are distant. Learn more in: Health Care Virtual Communities: Challenges and Opportunities

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It is a form of community where digital interactors come together. Learn more in: Erdogan vs. Erdogan: A Polarized Post-Truth Case in Social Media Reality

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A virtual community is a group of people communicating or interacting with each other by using computer networks rather than in person. Learn more in: Agent-Based Network Infrastructure for E-Communities

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A group of people with common interests and practices that communicates regularly and for some duration in an organized way over the Internet through a common location or site. Learn more in: Antecedents of Trust in Online Communities

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Group of users that often are widely separated geographically, communicate via computer and share common interests, aims and resources. Learn more in: Secure Collaborative Learning Practices and Mobile Technology

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A group of people whose primary interaction is online but the felt experience of the individuals constituting the group is similar to an actual physical community. Learn more in: Use of Semantics to Manage 3D Scenes in Web Platforms

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A non-physical space that people can interact like they could in realistic world; mostly on the Internet. Learn more in: Virtual Community and Online Game Players

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A social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Learn more in: The Importance of ICT in the Social Support Networks and in the Citizenship of the Portuguese Elderly

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An online forum or discussion group through which members may interact either in real time or asynchronously. Most virtual communities use discussion groups and message boards that are accessible online to all members. Members correspond by posting messages back and forth within the forum. Membership in a virtual community indicates that the user shares one or more common interests with others in the same forum. Learn more in: Building Police/Community Relations through Virtual Communities

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Virtual spaces in which groups of people gather around common interests, developing various forms of interaction, sometimes leading to the creation of community well-shaped. Learn more in: Virtual Communities

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A social network of individuals who interact through interactive media in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Learn more in: Use of Social Network for Business in Public Relations

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It is a set of people bounded by an interest, taste, or attitude. Virtual Communities used to have some organization and be together on a fan page, such as on Facebook. Patients are reunited in several communities ( Chretien & Kind, 2013 ). Learn more in: How Social Media Contribute to Autists' Wellbeing: A Netnographic Analysis of Virtual Communities Content

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It is social formations where users on digital platforms come together. Learn more in: Virtual Resistance of “Çiftlik (Farm) Bank Scapegoats” and Discursive Atonement of “Being Scammed”

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It is a community that is virtually constructed on the Internet. It is not the same as physical community but they tend to have the same characteristics as a community. Learn more in: Norms, Practices, and Rules of Virtual Community of Online Gamers: Applying the Institutional Theoretical Lens

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Online interactions between participants, in this research this occurred through engagement with the BEST site. Learn more in: Blogs as a Social Networking Tool to Build Community

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Social group without physical contact or geographical base, usually united by computer-mediated communication Learn more in: Sociology of Virtual Communities and Social Software Design

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A group of people who share a common interest or bond, but rather than meeting physically they form communities that cross geographical, social, cultural and economic boundaries. Learn more in: Older People, the Internet, and Virtual Communities

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Virtual Community is a social network of individuals who participate through the various social media tools. Learn more in: Fan Culture in the Digital Age: Online Football Fan Forums as the Virtual Extensions of Football Terraces

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A group of people who may or may not meet one another face-to-face, and who exchange words and ideas through the mediation of multimedia technologies. Learn more in: Usability in Mobile Computing and Commerce

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Online interactions between participants, in this research this occurred through engagement with the BEST site. Learn more in: Blogs as a Social Networking Tool to Build Community

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A cooperative group of individuals from various geographical regions that come together via ICT to solve social, business or educational objectives. Learn more in: Virtual Tourism and Its Potential for Tourism Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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See the definition for Online Communities. Learn more in: The Role of Online Health Education Communities in Wellness and Recovery

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A virtual community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet. Similar terms include online community and mediated community. Learn more in: Social Network Analysis for Virtual Communities

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The term virtual community designates people linked through the Internet by common values or interests, such as tastes, hobbies, or professions. The goal of the community is to create values through the exchange between members by sharing suggestions or advice or simply by discussing a topic. Learn more in: System and Environment for Tourism 4.0: How Does a Digital System Work for the Promotion and Evaluation of Gastronomic Tourism Fairs?

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A virtual organization and its space formed by a group of people with common interests or goals to share ideas, information, and experience. Learn more in: Virtual Community of Learning Object Repository

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Community exists within virtual space, which is the imaginary and conceptual spatial construction created by human perception or by the combination of human perception and technology (Tuan, 1975). Learn more in: Reconfiguration of Communities in Cyberspace

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A virtual community is primarily a social entity where people relate to one another by the use of a specific technology (Rheingold, 1993). Learn more in: Building Social Relationships in a Virtual Community of Gamers

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A group of people who interact primarily through CMC and who have developed a sense of virtual community with each other. Learn more in: Sense of Virtual Community

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Is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Learn more in: Exploiting Technological Potentialities for Collaborative New Product Development

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Environment for which participation is primarily mediated by technology applications or tools; interaction may be focused on social, work, or educational engagement. Learn more in: How Virtual Work Informs Virtual Learning

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A community of members to share common purposes over the Internet and social media. Learn more in: Trust and Trust Building of Virtual Communities in the Networked Age

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A social aggregation springing out of on-line interaction, on Internet, by forum or e-mail, of groups of people sharing a concern and usually having no face-to-face contacts. This kind of interaction simply aims at knowledge and opinions sharing, unlike CoPs where the forming of shared practices occurs. According to Rheingold (1993) the community exists when the public discussions last so long and with an emotive participation to create a net of personal relationships. Learn more in: Understanding RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

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Defined as a group of people who may or may not meet one another face-to-face, and who exchange words and ideas where people relate to one another by the use of a specific technology. Learn more in: Understanding the Virtual Community of Gamers

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An aggregation of individuals who interact around a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially supported and/or mediated by technology and guided by some protocols and norms (Porter, 2004) Learn more in: Knowledge Communities and Interorganizational Networks

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A group of people who join primarily in Web-based places to deliberately, moderated or independent, communicate and interact on HR-relevant aspects. Learn more in: Conception, Categorization, and Impact of HR-Relevant Virtual Communities

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Group of individuals that share some common interests and participate (actively or passively) in online-mediated spaces. Through their ongoing interactions, they build an online-shared-public space and sustain a feeling of membership. Learn more in: Virtual Knowledge-Building Communities

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A group formed on top of a social networking service. In most cases, group members have the same interest but are remotely located. Learn more in: Short History of Social Networking and Its Far-Reaching Impact

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A group of people who share a common interest or bond, but rather than meeting physically they form communities that cross geographical, social, cultural or economic boundaries. Learn more in: Children with Special Needs as a Virtual Community

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A group of people that communicate or interact via the Internet. Learn more in: Library 2.0 as a New Participatory Context

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A population of individuals with shared or complementary interests who interact across a host platform. Learn more in: Assessing the Social Network Health of Virtual Communities

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A grouping of users who interact with each other predominantly online. Learn more in: Social Enterprise Digital Marketing

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This is a featureless and, therefore, often misleading term usually regarded as synonymous to online community. The term “online community” is preferable, as it denotes the character of the community more accurately. Learn more in: Online Communities and Online Community Building

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A social group that use computer systems (e.g., Internet) to establish interactions among its members and where people discuss about a common interest around which the community is developed Learn more in: Trust in Virtual Communities

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Social aggregations that emerge from the net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feelings, to form Webs of personal relationships in cyberspace. Learn more in: Online Social Networks: Recommendation Diffusion and Co-Consumption Influence

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Virtual communities are most often online communities, and are usually created around a common interest which brings together their members. As they do not require a physical presence or space, members may come from anywhere in the world. MMORPGs and social networking services aim to create virtual communities. Learn more in: Live Music and Performances in a Virtual World

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An online or virtual community is the gathering of people, in an online virtual space where they come, communicate, connect, and get to know each other better over time. Learn more in: Social Networking Site: Opportunities and Security Challenges

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Groups of people using information system(s) for repeated social interaction to meet a certain need/needs. Virtual communities are also known as online communities or computer-mediated communities (CMC) Learn more in: Sense of Virtual Community

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A group of people with mutual interests who interact through social media. Learn more in: An Empirical Study on the Importance of Electronic Word of Mouth in the Concierge Industry: The Case of Cyprus

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Groups that gather online for information sharing and peer support. Learn more in: Shifting to Online Learning Through Faculty Collaborative Support

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is a type of community that originates and operates in computer-mediated environment as a group of net-users who have similar interests, needs and goals. Learn more in: Virtual Research Communities: From International Patterns to Local Implementations

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A group whose members are connected by means of information technology, existing in discussion groups, chat rooms, listservs, and newsgroups. Terms such as online community and mediated community are used synonymously. Learn more in: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges of Virtual Universities

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A social computer network. Learn more in: From Digital Divides to Digital Dividends: Embracing Basic Services in Zimbabwe's Digitalisation Agenda

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A featureless and, therefore, often misleading term usually regarded as synonymous to online community. The term “online community” is preferable, as it denotes the character of the community more accurately. Learn more in: Online Communities and Community Building

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A group of people who interact primarily through CMC and who have developed a sense of virtual community with each other. Learn more in: Sense of Virtual Community

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The generic name of the network that bringing together groups of people for a common purpose on the internet. Learn more in: New Event Trends as a Tool of Digital Marketing Communication

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Web-based groups of people using social software as infrastructure to interact or to collect knowledge. Virtual communities emerge due to positive network effects. If a critical number of community members is realized and sustained over a certain period of time, these members form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace Learn more in: Assessing the Total Cost of Ownership of Virtual Communities: The Case of the Berlin Stock Exchange

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A community in which the meeting place is virtual, such as the Internet. Learn more in: Mobile Virtual Communities of Commuters

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A group of people whose primary interaction is online but the felt experience of the individuals constituting the group is similar to an actual physical community. Learn more in: An Innovative E-Learning Platform for Vocational Training of European Local Police Forces