Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Virtual communities and social capital
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue on ISTAS '97: computers and society at a time of sweeping change
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society
The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
The Internet and Society
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
Organization Science
The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: characteristics and processes
ACM SIGMIS Database
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: From technical to socio-technical change: Tackling the human and organizational aspects of systems development projects
Electronic Commerce Research
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Topic-based social network analysis for virtual communities of interests in the Dark Web
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Topic-based social network analysis for virtual communities of interests in the dark web
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Dark Web portal overlapping community detection based on topic models
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Building collective memories on the web: the Nostalgia Bits project
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Motivating participation in online innovation communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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This study reviews the recent empirical studies on knowledge sharing in Virtual Communities (VCs). The paper begins with an analysis of the VC conceptualisation and the focal phenomenon of knowledge sharing. Secondly, the factors that seem to facilitate knowledge-sharing activities in VCs are identified and categorised as individual motivations, personal characteristics, technical attributes and community-level social capital. Overall, the results demonstrate a strong emphasis on why individuals engage in such activities, but less attention is given to what is being shared and how the processes of sharing are manifested in practice. The paper concludes with some suggestions for further research.