TY - BOOK AU - El Morr,Christo AU - Maret,Pierre ED - IGI eBooks. ED - IGI Global. TI - Virtual community building and the information society: current and future directions SN - 9781609608705 (ebook) AV - TK5105.83 .V57 2012e U1 - 303.48/33 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Hershey, Pa. PB - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA) KW - Electronic villages (Computer networks) KW - Online social networks KW - Information society KW - Virtual communities KW - Applications KW - Social impact KW - Multi-agent systems KW - Trust KW - Virtual community building KW - Infrastructures KW - Virtual technologies KW - Ambient intelligence KW - Content modeling KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-60960-869-9 ER -