Virtual community participation and motivation cross-disciplinary theories / [electronic resource] : Honglei Li, editor. - Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012. - electronic texts (374 p.) : digital files.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mixing metaphors: sociological and psychological perspectives on virtual communities / Kevin Y. Wang -- Asynchronous text-based community: proposals for the analysis / Antonella Mascio -- A web-based e-commerce learning community in Brazil / Luiz Antonio Joia -- Virtual communities as contributors for digital objects metadata generation / Joana S�ocrates Dantas, Regina Melo Silveira -- Redefining participation in online community: some neglected topics / Gibr�an Rivera Gonzalez, Andrew Cox -- Toward an understanding of online community participation through narrative network analysis / Michael R. Weeks -- Toward an infrastructural approach to understanding participation in virtual communities / Ben Li -- Community embodied: validating the subjective performance of an online class / Sergey Rybas -- Virtual communities as subaltern public spheres: a theoretical development and an application to the Chinese internet / Weiyu Zhang -- The psychology of trolling and lurking: the role of defriending and gamification for increasing participation in online communities using seductive narratives / Jonathan Bishop -- The importance of focal awareness to learning in virtual communities / Peter D. Gibbings, Lyn M. Brodie -- A systemic approach to online sharing motivations: a cross-disciplinary synthesis of rhetorical analysis and gift research / J�orgen Sk�ageby -- Scenario-planning for learning in communities: a virtual participation model to support holistic student development / Kam Hou Vat -- Continued participating knowledge sharing in online social network communities: service features, social capital facilitators, and impact on motivations / Stella W. Tian -- The continued use of a virtual community: an information adoption perspective / Xiao-Ling Jin ... [et al.] -- Mining student participatory behavior in virtual learning communities / Constanta-Nicoleta Bodea ... [et al.] -- Social net/work(ing) on Facebook: an analysis of audiences, producers, and immaterial laborers / Robert N. Spicer -- Culture, disorder, and death in an online world / Jonathan Marshall -- Virtual communities of practice in immersive virtual worlds: an empirical study on participants' involvement, motives, and behaviour / Grzegorz Majewski, Abel Usoro.

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"This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation,covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publisher.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781466603134 (ebook)

10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7 doi




Electronic villages (Computer networks)
Internet--Social aspects.
Computer networks--Social aspects.

Interpersonal relationship Behavior theories Power dynamics Social psychological perspective Social capital Community participation frameworks Process virtualization Belonging or inclusion Gift economy perspective Lurking and active participation


Electronic books.

TK5105.83 / .V575 2012e

004.67