Virtual community participation and motivation cross-disciplinary theories /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Li, Honglei, 1976-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: 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
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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.

Table of Contents:

• 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 Sócrates Dantas, Regina Melo Silveira
• Redefining participation in online community: some neglected topics / Gibrán 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 / Jörgen Skågeby
• 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.