Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies

Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
About the Editor......Page 16
Biometrics in Virtual Communities and Digital Governments......Page 18
Building Trust in Virtual Communities......Page 21
Business Advantage of Community Knowledge......Page 27
Business Applications of Virtual Communities......Page 30
Cancer Patient-to-Patient Online Discussion Groups......Page 35
Codes of Ethics in Virtual Communities......Page 39
Collaboration, Communiction, and Learning in a Virtual Community......Page 46
Collaborative Information Management System for Science Domains......Page 53
Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities......Page 59
Computer-Mediated Communication in Virtual Learning Communities......Page 66
Converting Online Community Visitors into Online Consumers......Page 71
Copyright Protection in Virtual Communities through Digital Watermarking......Page 78
Copyright Protection through Digital Watermarking......Page 83
Cross-Disciplinary Learning in Virtual Teams......Page 90
Cross-Disciplinary Virtual Design Teams......Page 99
Cultural Diversity and the Digital Divide......Page 104
Cultural Presence......Page 112
Culture in Virtual Communities......Page 119
Cyber Rhetoric and Online Ethos......Page 122
Cyberspace......Page 127
Defining "Virtual Community"......Page 133
Detecting and Responding to Online Deception......Page 138
Developing Virtual Communities in Transition Economies......Page 142
Differences in the Use of Media Across Cultures......Page 148
Discussing Health Issues on the Internet......Page 150
Distance Learning Applications Using Virtual Communities......Page 157
Draw to Participate in Virtual Communities......Page 162
E-Commerce Product Selection and Evaluation Services......Page 167
Effective Virtual Working through Communities of Practice......Page 173
E-Leadership......Page 178
E-Learning Models......Page 183
E-Learning vs. Traditional Teaching Methods......Page 191
An Electronic Auction Service Framework Based on Mobile Software Agents......Page 196
Electronic Networks of Practice and Communities of Practice......Page 205
Engaging Organisational Culture to Overcome Social Barriers in Virtual Communities......Page 210
Establishing and Sustaining Trust in Virtual Organizations......Page 215
Ethics of Deception in Virtual Communities......Page 221
Examining Social Structure in an Electronic Network of Practice......Page 224
Extending Online Communities through Virtual Parallel Systems......Page 230
Government Applications of Virtual Communities......Page 235
Grey Market Informatics......Page 240
Groupware and Team Aware......Page 245
How an Association Evolved Using Communities of Practice......Page 249
Human Resources and Knowledge Management Based on E-Democracy......Page 255
Hyperlink Analysis......Page 260
ICT, CoLs, CoPs, and Virtual Communities......Page 265
Implications of Virtual Schooling for Socialization and Community......Page 270
Improving Discussion in Virtual Communities......Page 275
Influence on Knowledge Construction......Page 278
Information Integrity for CRM in a Virtual World......Page 283
Information Navigation and Knowledge Discovery in Virtual Communities......Page 290
Integrating Visualization Techniques in Groupware Interfaces......Page 296
Intellectual Property Rights in Open Source Software Communities......Page 302
Internet-Mediated Communities......Page 308
Investor Empowerment or Market Manipulatin in Financial Virtual Communities......Page 313
Mediacommunication Based on Applicaiton-Layer Multicast......Page 319
The MENOS Organization......Page 324
Mobile Internet and Handheld Devices for Virtual Communities......Page 331
Modelling Stages of Behaviour in Social Virtual Communities......Page 338
MOOs as Virtual Communities......Page 346
Motivation in Online Communities......Page 351
Online Consumer Behavior......Page 355
Online Deception Types......Page 360
Online Empathy......Page 362
Online Gaming......Page 366
Online Group Facilitation Skills......Page 371
Online Social Networking for New Research Opportunities......Page 376
Open Source Software Communities......Page 380
Open-Source Software Issues......Page 385
Peer-to-Peer Technology for File Sharing......Page 389
Peer-to-Peer Wireless Network Confederation......Page 395
Peer-to-Peer-Based Collaboration for Virtual Communities......Page 399
Predicting Activity Levels in Virtual Communities......Page 404
Psychological Sense of Community in Virtual Communities......Page 407
Racial Issues in the Virtual Classroom......Page 414
Representing Virtual Communities for Advanced Services......Page 419
Reusable Learning Resources for Virtual Learning Environments......Page 422
Sanctioning Mechanisms in Virtual Communities......Page 426
Sociability and Usability for Active Participation......Page 431
Social Impact of Virtual Networking......Page 434
Success of Virtual Environments......Page 441
Supporting a Virtual Community for the Elderly......Page 445
Technology-Based Models......Page 451
Telework and the Academic Librarian......Page 456
Trust Between Managers and Subordinates in Virtual Communities......Page 460
Trust in B2B E-Commerce Virtual Communities......Page 462
Trust in Virtual Communities......Page 466
Trust in Virtual Organizations......Page 469
Understanding Knowledge Bases and Building Membership in Virtual Communities......Page 474
Understanding Virtual Communities in Online Games......Page 479
User Acceptance of Virtual Technologies......Page 485
User Trust in the BBS Communities......Page 490
Virtual Campus of Nanyang Technological University......Page 495
Virtual Collaborative Design......Page 499
Virtual Communities and Local Youth E-Democracy......Page 504
Virtual Communities and Social Capital Theory......Page 510
Virtual Communities and the Alignment of Web Ontologies......Page 514
Virtual Communities for Development......Page 517
Virtual Communities' Impact on Politics......Page 523
Virtual Communities in an MBA......Page 528
Virtual Communities in Banking Customer Retention......Page 532
Virtual Communities Wish List......Page 537
Virtual Community as New Marketing Channel......Page 541
Virtual Community Models in Relation to E-Business Models......Page 544
Virtual Community Sustainability......Page 549
Virtual Marketplace for Agent-Based Electronic Commerce......Page 556
Virtual Organizing Online Communities in Support of knowledge Synthesis......Page 564
Virtual Places......Page 573
Virtual Reality Technology in Computer-Aided Production Engineering......Page 579
Virtual Reality User Acceptance......Page 583
Virtual Teams Classification......Page 587
Virtually Finding Community in the Third Space......Page 591
Web Services and Virtual Communities......Page 595
Web-Based Knowledge Management Model......Page 601
Index of Key Terms......Page 608
Index......Page 618