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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"virtual communities"”.
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Virtual communities on the Web : content management
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Intelligent Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities
Virtual communities where people with common interests and goals communicate, share resources, and construct knowledge, are currently one of the fastest growing web environments. A common misconception is to believe that a virtual community will be effective when people and technology are present. …
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Virtual communities : uniting Internet users with similar interests
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Living in virtual communities : an ethnography of life online
… to inhabit new kinds of social spaces or virtual communities. People 'live in' and 'construct' these new spaces in such a way as to suggest that the Internet is not a placeless cyberspace that is distinct and separate from the real world. Building on the work of other cyberethnographers, I …
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Watch Me Disappear: Gendered Bodies, Pro-Anorexia, and Self-Injury in Virtual Communities
… the relationship between gendered identities, virtual communities, and material bodies, with an emphasis on eating disorders and self-injury practices. The use of the internet to represent and foster particular categories of material bodies, such as the anorexic, the fitness buff, and the …
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Virtual communities of practice in simulation-based healthcare education: participation factors and content value assessment
… of simulation-based healthcare education virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). The goal of this study was to analyse the frequency of participation, factors that influence participation, and strategies used to assess the value and credibility of content in simulation-based healthcare …
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Exploring the virtual communities of college football fans : the uses and gratifications of online message boards
In light of the uses and gratifications theory, this study examined how college football fans use online message boards, what their motivations are for using online message boards, and whether online message boards are complementing or displacing traditional media for them. A survey posted to four …
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Creating comparative advantages in the E-commerce industry
… industry is to create "stickiness" through virtual communities and personalization. Virtual communities and personalization have become necessary elements for a successful e-business as they provide extended customer relations. The two cannot be easily imitated by rivals, creating …
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Socialinių tinklų analizės galimybės /
… innovations without risk to overbalance. Various communities agree that the social network is the framework of social human relations and intercommunication. In the present paper the theory of the networking systematize the sites among the participants and the influence of the resource …
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The real-world implications of an imaginary world: A netnography of a Harry Potter based virtual community (Hogwarts Running Club)
… of this new form of social interaction is communities formed online or virtual communities (Ridings, Gefen, & Arinze, 2002). Virtual communities have been in existence for over thirty years (Ridings, Gefen, and Arinze, 2002) and existing studies of these communities have yielded powerful …
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Interactive media and social exchange of market information
… information exchange. The proliferation of virtual consumer communities or online feedback systems on the Internet, however, raises the question of how to foster cooperative communication among individual consumers in these multi-agent communication settings. In this decentralized …
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Mobile Collaborative Virtual Environments: A Paradigm Shift from Desktop to Mobile Online Communities
There are myriad examples of virtual communities and environments available for collaborative activities. However, most of these environments are confined to the desktop and thus preclude collaboration while users are on the move. Through a scenario-based design process, this article establishes …
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Modeling a multiple, contradictory self : collective voices of (anorexic) identity from cyberspace.
… and isolated sociocultural subgroups to create virtual communities where they can share their unique understandings and experiences of living with a mental illness. Individuals with eating disorders constitute one such subgroup who have created virtual spaces via pro-anorexia communities. Free …
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Questions about accountability and illegality of virtual rape
<p>Virtual rape is not a new phenomenon in virtual communities, as Julian Dibbell’s 1993 article pointed out, but it is beginning to gain attention in some scholarly circles. Of the articles specifically covering virtual rape, most focus on whether or not virtual rape is “real” while some attempt …
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Las curanderas de la herida abierta: how online communities of women of color are challenging coloniality
… and Instagram pages, women of color create virtual communities for epistemological transformations and community healing. In this thesis, I show that online communities of women of color constitute a decolonial feminist virtual space that serves as a site of knowledge production. I argue …
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I-Views : a storymaking community of, by and for the audience
… narratives by assembling clips, and to build communities of similar interests based on comparing these narratives. To facilitate sharing of on-line motion pictures and initiate conversations among storytellers/re-tellers and audiences, I-Views allows widely distributed groups of people to …
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The world of adolescence : using photovoice to explore psychological sense of community and wellbeing in adolescence with and without an intellectual disability
… understanding adolescents’ experiences in their communities. The present study explored the experiences of 10 adolescents from two urban schools in eastern Australia, a specialist school for students with a mild intellectual disability, and a mainstream school. Using Photovoice, an ethnographic …
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The Real Virtual World: Connectivity and Techno-mediation in the Lives of College Students
… such as social media, text messaging, and virtual communities are used to negotiate, establish and maintain interpersonal relationships among college students. Using in-depth interview and online participant observation, I explore the relationship between technological communication and …
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Wired & dangerous: hacks, hair extensions and other twists on traditional technical communication
… for hacking), and Black Hair Media, a virtual DIY hair extension community with an explicitly Afro Centric twist. Retaining characteristics of traditional proprietary technical communication and the "malleable, animated and visually complex" forms of communication associated with …
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