Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Network and Netplay
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An Introduction to Cyberculture
An Introduction to Cyberculture
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Information Systems Research
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 4 - Volume 4
Understanding the sustainability of a virtual community: model development and empirical test
Journal of Information Science
International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking
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The paper explores the interrelation and differences between the concepts of occupational community, community of practice, online community and social network. It uses as a case study illustration the domain of UK university web site production and specifically a listserv for those involved in it. Different latent occupational communities are explored, and the potential for the listserv to help realize these as an active sense of community is considered. The listserv is not (for most participants) a tight knit community of practice, indeed it fails many criteria for an online community. It is perhaps best conceived as a loose knit network of practice, valued for information, implicit support and for the maintenance of weak ties. Through the analysis the case for using strict definitions of the theoretical concepts is made.