Handbook of research on methods and techniques for studying virtual communities [electronic resource] : paradigms and phenomena / Ben Kei Daniel, editor.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts (765 p.) : ill., digital filesISBN:- 9781609600419 (ebook)
- Electronic villages (Computer networks) -- Social aspects
- Online social networks
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Blended communities
- Conversation analysis
- Distributed communities of practice
- Immersive virtual ethnography
- Mapping electronic conversations
- Methods for evaluating online discussions
- Modeling social interactions in online communities
- Quantitative content analysis of online interactions
- Semantic social network analysis
- Virtual geodemographics
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- TK5105.83 .H36 2011eb
- Also available in print.
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"This book satisfies the need for methodological consideration and tools for data collection, analysis and presentation in virtual communities, covering studies on various types of virtual communities, making this reference a comprehensive source of research for those in the social sciences and humanities"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Jan. 13, 2011).