Title :
Social profiles of virtual communities
Author :
Hummel, Johannes ; Lechner, Ulrike
Abstract :
The phenomenon "virtual community" reflects the social, political and economic impact of information and communications technology changing the architecture of interaction. We present an approach to describe and manage the social environments of transactions that are provided in virtual communities. We explore virtual communities, their novel social structures and the dynamics of the social momentum of communities. We present an empirical study of fifty virtual communities.
Keywords :
Internet; business data processing; politics; socio-economic effects; business model; economic impact; information and communications technology; interaction architecture change; peer-to-peer computing; political impact; social environments; social impact; social momentum; social profiles; social structures; virtual communities; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Computer science; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Information systems; Internet; Mass customization; Peer to peer computing; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1435-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2002.994154
