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Maxymuk, John. "Online communities." Bottom Line 20, no. 1 (March 27, 2007): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08880450710747461.

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Stewart, Tom. "Online communities." Behaviour & Information Technology 29, no. 6 (November 2010): 555–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2010.523615.

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Plant, Robert. "Online communities." Technology in Society 26, no. 1 (January 2004): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2003.10.005.

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Johnston, Allen C., James L. Worrell, Paul M. Di Gangi, and Molly Wasko. "Online health communities." Information Technology & People 26, no. 2 (May 31, 2013): 213–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-02-2013-0040.

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Duncan-Howell, Jennifer. "Online Professional Communities." International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 16, no. 5 (2009): 601–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v16i05/46261.

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Paterson, Lorraine. "Online customer communities." Business Information Review 26, no. 1 (March 2009): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266382108101307.

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Tsui, Amy B. M. "Online and Offline Communities." Information Technology, Education and Society 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7459/ites/14.2.02.

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Yi, Byoung Do. "Governance of Online Communities." Institute for Legal Studies Chonnam National University 39, no. 2 (May 30, 2019): 73–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.38133/cnulawreview.2019.39.2.73.

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Wasilko, Peter J. "Workshop report: online communities." ACM SIGWEB Newsletter 9, no. 1 (February 2000): 32–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/500691.500700.

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Blissenden, Michael, Sandra Clarke, and Caroline Strevens. "Developing online legal communities." International Journal of Law and Management 54, no. 2 (March 16, 2012): 153–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17542431211208568.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Online communities"

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Poggenpoel, Shadley (Shadley Carl). "Online golfing communities." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50408.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.
AENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the advent of the internet a few years ago many online communities have been formed from traditional communities. The ability of a traditional community to transform into an online community depends on the type of interaction that is required by that particular community. Based on the arguments of various critics of the online community, this study will focus on the feasibility of transforming the golfing fraternity from a traditional to an online community. The study project therefore proposes to understand online communities as a subset within the general concept of community. It will be determined if the golfing community that currently falls into the traditional framework is open to create itself into a modern online community. The characteristics of traditional communities include bonding, sharing of information and other items of common interest which is similar for online communities. It is within this objective that the characteristics of online communities and the relationship between traditional and modern communities will be discussed. The first phase was to develop a questionnaire based on desirability and expectations of an online golfing community and for the purposes of this study, the research population comprised of the registered golf members of golf clubs in the Western Province Golf Union (WPGU) in the Western Cape. Furthermore there is within the Western Cape golfing community, possibly scope for a universal understanding of this community as a whole. Golfing communities can be defined through their unique characteristics. Golf communities are traditional communities that have evolved over time. Since modern communities are no longer constrained by geography the question arises whether, golf which has all the characteristics of a traditional community would be able to migrate to a modern online community. From the empirical study it became evident that the current golf community is open to using the internet to gain information on golf. The potential for the success of an online golfing community especially an interactive one in the future is great as the survey results show that the current membership are open to the idea of an online community.FRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met die koms van die internet 'n paar jaar gelede, is baie aanlyn gemeenskappe vanaf tradisionele gemeenskappe ontwikkel. Die vermoe van tradisionele gemeenskappe om na aanlyn gemeenskappe te verander, is afhanklik van die tipe interaksie wat in daardie spesifieke gemeenskap benodig word. In die lig van 'n literatuurstudie oor die verskillende standpunte oor aanlyn gemeenskappe, is 'n ondersoek gedoen na die aanneemlikheid van die verandering van 'n tradisionele gemeenskap, naamlik die gholf gemeenskap, na 'n aanlyn gemeenskap. Die studie het daarom ten doel om aanlyn gemeenskappe te ondersoek as 'n sub-afdeling van die algemene gemeenskap konsep. Deel van die ondersoek behels die openheid van die gholf gemeenskap, 'n tipiese tradisionele gemeenskap, om 'n moderne virtuele gemeenskap te vorm. Die samestelling van 'n tradisionele gemeenskap beskik oor soortgelyke eienskappe as die van 'n aanlyn gemeenskap soos verbondenheid, die deel van inligting en ander items van gemeenskaplike belang. Dit is die doelwit van hierdie studie om die eienskappe van die aanlyn gemeenskap en die verwantskap tussen tradisionele en aanlyn gemeenskap te bespreek. Die eerste fase, was die ontwikkeling van 'n vraelys met klem op die wenslikheid en behoeftes van 'n aanlyn gholf gemeenskap. Die populasie vir die studie was lede van die Westelike Provinsie Gholf Vereniging (WPGU) in die Wes Kaap. Die data wat ontgin is uit die navorsing van die WPGU kan ook moontlik bydra tot 'n verstaan van die universele gholf gemeenskap in Suid Afrika. Gholf gemeenskappe kan gedefinieer word deur hulle unieke eienskappe. Hulle is tradisionele gemeenskappe wat ontwikkel het deur die jare. Sedert moderne gemeenskappe nie langer geografies beperk is nie moet die vraag gestel word of 'n tradisionele gholf gemeenskap tot 'n moderne aanlyn gemeenskap kan ontwikkel? Uit die literatuurstudie het die duidelik geword dat die huidige gholf gemeenskap oop is vir die gebruik van die internet om inligting oor gholf in te win. In die lig van huidige lede se aanvaarding van aanlyn gemeenskappe lyk die potensiaal en moontlikheid vir die sukses van 'n aanlyn gholf gemeenskap in die toekoms belowend.
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Donker, Hilko, and Michael Fleck. "Evaluation von Online-Communities." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-155614.

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Eine Online-Community oder auch virtuelle Gemeinschaft ist ein Bereich im Internet, in der Personen sich zu bestimmten Themen treffen, sich unterhalten, sich selbst darstellen oder um zu konsumieren. Der Erfolg einer Online-Community ist durch die Usability des User Interfaces einer Online-Community nicht angemessen zu beschreiben. Daher wird in diesem Beitrag analysiert, welche weiteren Faktoren neben der Usability bei der Evaluation von Online-Communities berücksichtigt werden müssen. Online-Communities unterstützen kooperatives Verhalten, wie die Kommunikation zwischen Teilnehmern und das Arbeiten in Gruppen. Daher spielen soziale Eigenschaften der Anwendung eine zentrale Rolle. Hierzu wird das Konzept der Sociability eingeführt und es werden Kriterien abgeleitet, die bei der Bewertung von Online-Communities berücksichtigt werden sollten. Neben Usability und Sociability werden Eigenschaften der Online-Communities bewertet, die den Nutzer bei der Anwendung sowohl stimulieren als auch ihn dabei unterstützen, sich mit der Gemeinschaft zu identifizieren und ihm helfen, sich innerhalb der Umgebung seiner gewünschten Identität angemessen auszudrücken.
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Donker, Hilko, and Michael Fleck. "Evaluation von Online-Communities." Technische Universität Dresden, 2005. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28390.

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Eine Online-Community oder auch virtuelle Gemeinschaft ist ein Bereich im Internet, in der Personen sich zu bestimmten Themen treffen, sich unterhalten, sich selbst darstellen oder um zu konsumieren. Der Erfolg einer Online-Community ist durch die Usability des User Interfaces einer Online-Community nicht angemessen zu beschreiben. Daher wird in diesem Beitrag analysiert, welche weiteren Faktoren neben der Usability bei der Evaluation von Online-Communities berücksichtigt werden müssen. Online-Communities unterstützen kooperatives Verhalten, wie die Kommunikation zwischen Teilnehmern und das Arbeiten in Gruppen. Daher spielen soziale Eigenschaften der Anwendung eine zentrale Rolle. Hierzu wird das Konzept der Sociability eingeführt und es werden Kriterien abgeleitet, die bei der Bewertung von Online-Communities berücksichtigt werden sollten. Neben Usability und Sociability werden Eigenschaften der Online-Communities bewertet, die den Nutzer bei der Anwendung sowohl stimulieren als auch ihn dabei unterstützen, sich mit der Gemeinschaft zu identifizieren und ihm helfen, sich innerhalb der Umgebung seiner gewünschten Identität angemessen auszudrücken.
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Wagner, Sarina. "Online-Communities als Marketinginstrument." [Ilmenau] [Univ.-Bibliothek], 2009. http://d-nb.info/996272518/34.

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Irani, Danesh. "Preventing abuse of online communities." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44895.

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Online communities are growing at a phenomenal rate and with the large number of users these communities contain, attackers are drawn to exploit these users. Denial of information (DoI) attacks and information leakage attacks are two popular attacks that target users on online communities. These information based attacks are linked by their opposing views on low-quality information. On the one hand denial of information attacks which primarily use low-quality information (such as spam and phishing) are a nuisance for information consumers. On the other hand information leakage attacks, which use inadvertently leaked information, are less effective when low-quality information is used, and thus leakage of low-quality information is prefered by private information producers. In this dissertation, I introduce techniques for preventing abuse against these attacks in online communities using meta-model classification and information unification approaches, respectively. The meta-model classification approach involves classifying the ``connected payload" associated with the information and using the classification result for the determination. This approach allows for detection of DoI attacks in emerging domains where the amount of information may be constrained. My information unification approach allows for modeling and mitigating information leakage attacks. Unifying information across domains followed by a quantificiation of the information leaked, provides one of the first studies on users' susceptibality to information leakage attacks. Further, the modeling introduced allows me to quantify the reduced threat of information leakage attacks after applying information cloaking.
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Persson, Hannes, and Christian Toft. "Support usability in online communities." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2570.

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This thesis will divide the concept of member feedback in online communities into three types, namely conversational-, behavioural feedback and content analysis. During this thesis we will argue for the advantages with user involvement in design and how the three types of feedback listed above together with members could be introduced into the design process. We argue that by combining traditional methods such as personas and focus groups with the different kinds of feedback in the design and evaluation process supports usability in online communities.
Denna uppsats kommer att dela på konceptet medlems-feedback i online communities i tre olika typer, nämligen feedback genom konversation, beteende och community innehåll. Vi kommer att argumentera för fördelarna med att involvera användarna i design processen och hur de tre olika typerna av feedback kan användas i denna process. Genom att kombinera traditionella metoder som tex. personas och fokus grupper med dessa typer av feedback kan ett användbarhets mål uppnås.
Hannes Persson 0702-229542 Christian Toft 070-7981770
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Smith, Matthew Scott. "Social Capital in Online Communities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2730.

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Social capital is the value of the relationships we create and maintain within our social networks to gain access to and mobilize needed resources (e.g., jobs, moral support). Quantifying, and subsequently leveraging, social capital are challenging problems in the social sciences. Most work so far has focused on analyses from static surveys of limited numbers of participants. The explosion of online social media means that it is now possible to collect rich data about people's connections and interactions, in a completely ubiquitous, non-intrusive manner. Such dynamic social data opens the door to the more accurate measuring and tracking of social capital. Similarly, online data is replete with additional personal data, such as topics discussed in blogs or hobbies listed in personal profiles, that is difficult to obtain through standard surveys. Such information can be used to discover similarities, or implicit affinities, among individuals, which in turn leads to finer measures of social capital, including the often useful distinction between bonding and bridging social capital. In this work, we exploit these opportunities and propose a computational framework for quantifying and leveraging social capital in online communities. In addition to being dynamic and formalizing the notion of implicit affinities, our framework significantly extends current social network analysis research by modeling access and mobilization of resources, the essence of social capital. The main contributions of our framework include 1) hybrid networks that provide a way for potential and realized social capital to be distinguished; 2) the decoupling of bonding and bridging social capital, a formulation previously overlooked which coincides with empirical evidence; 3) the unification of multiple views on social capital, in particular, the seamless integration of resources. We demonstrate the broad applicability of our framework through a number of representative, real-world case studies to test relevant social science hypotheses. Assuming that the extraction of implicit affinities may be useful for community building, we built a large social network of blogs from an active, tech-oriented segment of the Blogosphere, using cross-references among blogs. We then used topic modeling techniques to extract an implicit affinity network based on the content of the blogs, and showed that potential sub-communities could be formed through increased bonding. A widespread assumption in sociology is that bonding is more likely than bridging in social networks. In other words, people are more likely to seek out others who are like them than attempt to link to those they share little or nothing with. We wanted to test that hypothesis, particularly in the context of online communities. Using Twitter, we created an experiment where hand-crafted accounts would tweet at regular intervals and use varied following strategies, including following only those with maximum affinity, following only those with no affinity, following random users, etc. Using the number of follow-backs as a surrogate for social capital, we showed that the assumed physical social behavior is also prevalent online, p < 0.01. There is much interest in computational social science to compare physical and cyber behaviors, test existing hypotheses on a large scale and design novel experiments. The advent of social media is also impacting public health, with growing evidence that some global health issues (e.g., H1N1 outbreak) may be discovered and tracked more efficiently by monitoring the content of social exchanges (e.g., blogs, tweets). In collaboration with colleagues from Health Sciences, we wanted to test whether broadly applicable health topics were discussed on Twitter, and to design and guide the process of discovering such themes. We gathered a large number of tweets over several regions of the United States over a one-month period, and analyzed their content using topic modeling techniques. We found that while clearly not a mainstream topic, health concerns were non-negligible on Twitter. By further focusing on tobacco, we discovered several subtopics related to tobacco (e.g., tobacco use promotion, addiction recovery), which indicate that analysis of the Twitter social network may help researchers better understand how Twitter promotes both positive and negative health behaviors. Finally, in collaboration with colleagues from Linguistics, we wanted to quantify the effect of social capital on second language acquisition in study abroad. Using questionnaire data collected from about 200 study abroad participants, we found that students participating in bridging relationships had significantly higher levels of language improvement than their counterparts, F(1,201) = 12.53, p < .0001.
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Couraud, Jason R. "Risk Perception in Online Communities." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3898.

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Online communities have become a part of everyday life for many people. The members of the communities use them to keep in touch with family and friends, do business, look for jobs, play games, and more, both savory and unsavory. The ease of sharing personal information comes with the subsequent risk of having that information exposed publically or even stolen. The purpose of this study was to explore how much awareness of the risks affects a person’s decision to post personal information to an online community. Chapter I introduces the concepts and issues that will be investigated by this paper. Chapter II is a review of the literature on risk. Chapter III explains the model that was developed and used determine the relationships between risk perception, attitude, fear, and information revelation. Chapter IV explains the methods used to gather the data and what data was gathered. Chapter V contains the analysis of the data collected. Chapter VI contains the conclusion drawn from the data, implications for the research, and directions for future research.
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Fernando, Champika. "Online learning webs : designing support structures for online communities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95602.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72).
This thesis explores how we can design online learning communities to better support connections to the people and resources beginners need when learning to program. I describe and analyze the design and implementation of the Scripts Workshop, a learning environment that supports members of the Scratch online community who are stuck on a programming problem in a Scratch project. The Scripts Workshop considers the People, Activities and Spaces needed to support these users in getting un-stuck. I conclude by describing a set of design principles for building learning webs within online communities, derived from the Scripts Workshop experiment.
by Champika Fernando.
S.M.
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Del, Grosso Michael. "Design and implementation of online communities." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA397008.

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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2001.
Thesis advisor(s): Darken, Rudolph. "September 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62). Also Available online.
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Books on the topic "Online communities"

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Shah, Rawn. Managing online communities. Indianapolis, Ind: FT Press, 2009.

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Martínez-López, Francisco J., Rafael Anaya, Rocio Aguilar, and Sebastián Molinillo. Online Brand Communities. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24826-4.

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Dressler, Matthias, ed. Krankenkassenmarketing in Online-Communities. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8477-7.

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Palloff, Rena M. Building Online Learning Communities. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009.

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Schuler, Douglas, ed. Online Communities and Social Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0.

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Ozok, A. Ant, and Panayiotis Zaphiris, eds. Online Communities and Social Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8.

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Ozok, A. Ant, and Panayiotis Zaphiris, eds. Online Communities and Social Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39371-6.

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Ozok, A. Ant, and Panayiotis Zaphiris, eds. Online Communities and Social Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1.

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Bierwald, Jan. Specialization in Online Innovation Communities. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05318-5.

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Duskaeva, Lilia, ed. Speech Etiquette in Slavic Online Communities. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81747-3.

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Book chapters on the topic "Online communities"

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Brainard, Lori A. "Online Communities." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, 1–6. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_43-1.

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Götzenbrucker, Gerit, and Bernd Löger. "Online Communities." In Virtuelle Gruppen, 244–72. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11761-2_10.

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Schulz, Deike. "Online Communities." In Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_174-1.

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Abras, Chadia. "Online Communities." In Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 1246–61. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0470048204.ch47.

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Gruzd, Anatoliy. "Online Communities." In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1–11. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_81-1.

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Cohen, James, and Thomas Kenny. "Online Communities." In Producing New and Digital Media, 11–69. Second edition. | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429201226-2.

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Gruzd, Anatoliy. "Online Communities." In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1171–81. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_81.

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Sproull, Lee, and Manuel Arriaga. "Online Communities." In Handbook of Computer Networks, 898–914. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118256107.ch58.

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Mesch, Gustavo S. "Online Communities." In Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 227–42. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32933-8_15.

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Gruzd, Anatoliy. "Online Communities." In Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 1635–45. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_81.

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Conference papers on the topic "Online communities"

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Neal, Lisa, Gitte Lindgaard, Kate Oakley, Derek Hansen, Sandra Kogan, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Ted Selker. "Online health communities." In CHI '06 extended abstracts. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125549.

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Kow, Yong Ming, and Bonnie Nardi. "Forget online communities?" In the ACM 2011 conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958877.

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Foote, Jeremy, Darren Gergle, and Aaron Shaw. "Starting Online Communities." In CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025639.

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Neal, Lisa, Kate Oakley, Gitte Lindgaard, David Kaufman, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Ted Selker. "Online health communities." In CHI '07 extended abstracts. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240965.

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Liao, Qinying, Yingxin Pan, Michelle X. Zhou, and Fei Ma. "Chinese online communities." In the 28th international conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753658.

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Otterbacher, Jahna. "'Helpfulness' in online communities." In the SIGCHI Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518848.

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Naaman, Mor. "Session details: Online Communities." In CSCW '16: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3260461.

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Xia, Huanhuan, Xianghua Ding, Tun Lu, Qi Wang, and Ning Gu. "Mobility in online communities." In CSCW '12: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141590.

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Hertz, Paul. "Supporting online collaborative communities." In ACM SIGGRAPH 99 Conference abstracts and applications. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/311625.311730.

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McCully, Wyl, Cliff Lampe, Chandan Sarkar, Alcides Velasquez, and Akshaya Sreevinasan. "Online and offline interactions in online communities." In the 7th International Symposium. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038566.

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Reports on the topic "Online communities"

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Seybold, Patricia. Online Customer Communities Are Strategic. Boston, MA: Patricia Seybold Group, September 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1571/execguide_onlinecomm.

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Lees, Matthew. Measuring the Success of Online Communities. Boston, MA: Patricia Seybold Group, February 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1571/psgp02-22-07cc.

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Lees, Matthew. Best Practices in Moderating Online Communities. Boston, MA: Patricia Seybold Group, April 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1571/bp04-26-07cc.

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Cesicar-Sanvictores, Maribeth, and Jane Parray. How ADB Is Strengthening Community Building through Online Communities. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/brf230040.

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Lees, Matthew. 10 Critical Success Factors for Generating ROI from Online Customer Communities. Boston, MA: Patricia Seybold Group, October 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1571/bp10-02-08cc.

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Kidney, Colleen. Rethinking Autism, Communication, and Community Involvement: Exploring Involvement in Online Communities, Communication Preference, Autistic Identity, and Self-Determination. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.2221.

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Thomas, Catherine, and Lynne Koontz. 2020 national park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the nation. National Park Service, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2286547.

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The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports economic activity within park gateway communities. This report summarizes the annual economic contribution analysis that measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generating business sales and supporting jobs and income. In 2020, the National Park System received over 237 million recreation visits (down 28% from 2019). Visitors to national parks spent an estimated $14.5 billion in local gateway regions (down 31% from 2019). The estimated contribution of this spending to the national economy was 234,000 jobs, $9.7 billion in labor income, $16.7 billion in value added, and $28.6 billion in economic output. The lodging sector saw the highest direct effects, with $5 billion in economic output directly contributed to this sector nationally. The restaurants sector saw the next greatest effects, with $3 billion in economic output directly contributed to this sector nationally. Results from the Visitor Spending Effects report series are available online via an interactive tool. Users can view year-by-year trend data and explore current year visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and economic output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. The interactive tool is available at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/vse.htm.
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Hutchinson, Jade, Julian Droogan, Lise Waldek, and Brian Ballsun-Stanton. Violent Extremist & REMVE Online Ecosystems: Ecological Characteristics for Future Research & Conceptualization. RESOLVE Network, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/remve2022.5.

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Despite this increasing focus on violent extremist ecosystems in the online sphere, it is unclear the extent to which ecological terms in literature on extremism—and particularly literature focused on the online space—are empirically validated or even consistently used. Indeed, there remain fundamental gaps in understanding and defining what we mean when we discuss the ecology of violent extremism and online violent extremist ecosystems. These gaps have notable implications for defining what an online ecosystem actually is—including its characteristics, impact, scope, and reach—and identifying appropriate policy responses to address them. This is of particular importance in the context of the growing volume of studies looking at racially and ethnically motivated (REMVE) communities online and across multiple platforms. Based on findings from a structured literature review examining the use of terms “ecosystem” and “ecology” in terrorism and violent extremism studies and related disciplines, this research brief presents a list of ten ecological characteristics for further consideration by those working in research, policy, and practice focused on online violent extremist ecosystems. Brief examples are provided of how these characteristics might be conceptualized in research into REMVE online ecosystems, given the increased attention REMVE online ecosystems have garnered in recent years. This review of the literature indicates that the concepts and terms “ecosystem” and “ecology” have potential, if limited, analytical utility for policymakers and academics, beyond their descriptive and currently largely metaphorical use in the literature. Despite the clear limitations which accompany the translation of natural science terminology into terrorism and violent extremism studies, certain characteristics of ecosystems may present specific analytical perspectives useful to those seeking to address or study terrorism and violent extremism online. For instance, although digital environments are not true ecological systems in the biological sense, delineating and defining conceptual components of an ecosystem may provide a shared conception when used to describe how extremist violence emerges from online environments, or when used to interpret these descriptions in a policy and practice setting. Descriptive definitions and the proposed advantages and limitations of using characteristics related to ecosystems are addressed in the following sections.
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Droogan, Julian, Lise Waldek, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, and Jade Hutchinson. Mapping a Social Media Ecosystem: Outlinking on Gab & Twitter Amongst the Australian Far-right Milieu. RESOLVE Network, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/remve2022.6.

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Attention to the internet and the online spaces in which violent extremists interact and spread content has increased over the past decades. More recently, that attention has shifted from understanding how groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State use the internet to spread propaganda to understanding the broader internet environment and, specifically, far-right violent extremist activities within it. This focus on how far right violent extremist—including far-right racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists (REMVEs) within them—create, use, and exploit the online networks in which they exist to promote their hateful ideology and reach has largely focused on North America and Europe. However, in recent years, examinations of those online dynamics elsewhere, including in Australia, is increasing. Far right movements have been active in Australia for decades. While these movements are not necessarily extremist nor violent, understanding how violent far right extremists and REMVEs interact within or seek to exploit these broader communities is important in further understanding the tactics, reach, and impact of REMVEs in Australia. This is particularly important in the online space access to broader networks of individuals and ideas is increasingly expanding. Adding to a steadily expanding body of knowledge examining online activities and networks of both broader far right as well as violent extremist far right populations in Australia, this paper presents a data-driven examination of the online ecosystems in which identified Australian far-right violent extremists exist and interact,1 as mapped by user generated uniform resource locators (URL), or ‘links’, to internet locations gathered from two online social platforms—Twitter and Gab. This link-based analysis has been used in previous studies of online extremism to map the platforms and content shared in online spaces and provide further detail on the online ecosystems in which extremists interact. Data incorporating the links was automatically collected from Twitter and Gab posts from users existing within the online milieu in which those identified far right extremists were connected. The data was collected over three discrete one-month periods spanning 2019, the year in which an Australian far right violent extremist carried out the Christchurch attack. Networks of links expanding out from the Twitter and Gab accounts were mapped in two ways to explore the extent and nature of the online ecosystems in which these identified far right Australian violent extremists are connected, including: To map the extent and nature of these ecosystems (e.g., the extent to which other online platforms are used and connected to one another), the project mapped where the most highly engaged links connect out to (i.e., website domain names), and To explore the nature of content being spread within those ecosystems, what sorts of content is found at the end of the most highly engaged links. The most highly engaged hashtags from across this time are also presented for additional thematic analysis. The mapping of links illustrated the interconnectedness of a social media ecosystem consisting of multiple platforms that were identified as having different purposes and functions. Importantly, no links to explicitly violent or illegal activity were identified among the top-most highly engaged sites. The paper discusses the implications of the findings in light of this for future policy, practice, and research focused on understanding the online ecosystems in which identified REMVE actors are connected and the types of thematic content shared and additional implications in light of the types of non-violent content shared within them.
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Potts, Tavis, and Rebecca Ford. Leading from the front? Increasing Community Participation in a Just Transition to Net Zero in the North-East of Scotland. Scottish Universities Insight Institute, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.57064/2164/19722.

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n line with Scottish Net Zero targets and the national strategy for a Just Transition, the Northeast of Scotland is transforming towards a low carbon future with a number of high-profile industry and policy initiatives. With the region home to global energy companies and historical high levels of energy sector employment, the narrative on transition is predominantly framed within an industrial and technological context, including narratives on new opportunities in green jobs, green industrial development, technical innovation and new infrastructure to support energy transition. As the energy landscape shifts in the North-East of Scotland, the impacts will be felt most keenly in communities from shifts in employment to changes to local supply chains. It is important to note that Net Zero ambitions will also change the nature and structure of communities in the region, for those within a shifting oil and gas industry and those without. A just transition ensures that all voices are heard, engaged and included in the process of change, and that communities, including those who have benefited and those who have not, have a stake in determining the direction of travel of a changing society and economy of the North-east. As a result, there is a need for a community-oriented perspective to transition which discusses a range of values and perspectives, the opportunities and resources available for transition and how communities of place can support the process of change toward Net Zero. Social transformation is a key element of a just transition and community engagement, inclusion and participation is embedded in the principles laid down by the Just Transition Commission. Despite this high-level recognition of social justice and inclusion at the heart of transition, there has been little move to understand what a just transition means in the context of local communities in the NorthEast. This project aims to address this imbalance and promote the ability of communities to not only engage but to help steer net zero transitions. It seeks to uncover and build a stronger local consensus about the vision and pathways for civil society to progress a just transition in the Northeast of Scotland. The project aims to do this through bringing together civil society, academic, policy and business stakeholders across three interactive workshops to: 1. Empower NE communities to engage with the Just Transition agenda 2. Identify what are the key issues within a Just Transition and how they can be applied in the Northeast. 3. Directly support communities by providing training and resources to facilitate change by working in partnership. The project funding supported the delivery of three professionally facilitated online workshops that were held over 2021/22 (Figure 1). Workshop 1 explored the global principles within a just transition and how these could apply to the Scottish context. Workshop 2 examined different pathways and options for transition in the context of Northeast Scotland. Workshop 3, in partnership with NESCAN explored operational challenges and best practices with community participants. The outcomes from the three workshops are explored in detail.
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