Virtual community building and the information society current and future directions / [electronic resource] : Christo El Morr and Pierre Maret, editors. - Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012. - electronic texts (248 p.) : ill., digital files.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Virtual community building and the information society: current and future directions / Christo El Morr ... [et al.] -- 2. The creation and management of online brand communities / Paola Falcone -- 3. Coordinating nomadic evaluation practices by supporting the emergence of virtual communities / Marianne Laurent -- 4. An integrated methodology to detect the evolution of virtual organizational communities / Marco De Maggio and Francesca Grippa -- 5. How e-Learning experience enhances the social presence in community of practice: an empirical analysis / Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea, Radu Mogos and Maria-Iuliana Dascalu -- 6. Online communities: a historically based examination of how social formations online fulfill criteria for community / Jakob Linaa Jensen -- 7. Functionalities and facets of group awareness in collaborative online laboratories / Christophe Gravier and Michael Callaghan -- 8. Towards a participative platform for cultural texts translators / Aur�lien B�enel and Philippe Lacour -- 9. Virtual communities in a services innovation context: a service science and mereotopology based method and tool / Florie Bugeaud and Eddie Soulier -- 10. Semantically linking virtual communities / Rajendra Akerkar and Terje Aaberge -- 11. Identification vs. self-verification in virtual communities (VC): theoretical gaps and design implications / Kathy Ning Shen -- 12. Freedom, control, security: current and future implications for Internet governance / Martin Hans Knahl and Geoff Cox.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781609608705 (ebook)

10.4018/978-1-60960-869-9 doi




Electronic villages (Computer networks)
Online social networks.
Information society.

Virtual communities Applications Social impact Multi-agent systems Trust Virtual community building Infrastructures Virtual technologies Ambient intelligence Content modeling


Electronic books.

TK5105.83 / .V57 2012e

303.48/33