Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories: Cross-Disciplinary TheoriesLi, Honglei With 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. |
Contents
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Asynchronous TextBased Community | 18 |
A WebBased ECommerce Learning Community in Brazil | 37 |
Virtual Communities as Contributors for Digital Objects Metadata Generation | 55 |
Redefining Participation in Online Community | 72 |
Toward an Understanding of Online Community Participation through Narrative Network Analysis | 90 |
Toward an Infrastructural Approach to Understanding Participation in Virtual Communities | 103 |
Community Embodied | 124 |
A Systemic Approach to Online Sharing Motivations | 192 |
ScenarioPlanning for Learning in Communities | 208 |
Continuous Knowledge Sharing in Online Social Network Communities | 228 |
The Continued Use of a Virtual Community | 248 |
Mining Student Participatory Behavior in Virtual Learning Communities | 267 |
Social Networking on Facebook | 315 |
Culture Disorder and Death in an Online World | 330 |
Virtual Communities of Practice in Immersive Virtual Worlds | 347 |
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Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-disciplinary Theories Honglei Li No preview available - 2012 |
Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-disciplinary Theories Honglei Li No preview available - 2012 |
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