Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
Net gain: expanding markets through virtual communities
The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Observed behavior and perceived value of authors in usenet newsgroups: bridging the gap
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Sense of Virtual Community-Maintaining the Experience of Belonging
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
The active lurker: influence of an in-house online community on its outside environment
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Assessing differential usage of usenet social accounting meta-data
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Web Interact: An e-Learning Support System
WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
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Over the years, Web-based communities (WBC) have evolved from social phenomena that have no business dimension to a business enabler in the virtual marketplace. WBC becomes economically interesting with the increasing size of the community where members are active participants in sharing ideas and knowledge. There are, however, inherent problems associated with the increasing size of a WBC, especially determining the contributions of members in sustaining the community's interactivity. Interactivity relates to the level of participation of a member in a given community, and the usefulness of such contributions to the needs of the community. In this paper, we present an interactivity model that captures the contributions of members of the community and also determines the community's interactivity level. We use simulation results to validate the correctness of our model.