Virtual commonality: looking for India on the Internet
Virtual culture
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Rise of the Network Society
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Experiential design of shared information spaces
Designing information spaces
Where the footprints lead: tracking down other roles for social navigation
Designing information spaces
Social connotations of space in the design for virtual communities and social navigation
Designing information spaces
Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Digital Documents - Volume 6
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This paper addresses the concepts of community and online community and discusses the physical, functional, and symbolic characteristics of a community that have formed the basis for traditional definitions. It applies a four-dimensional perspective of space and place (i.e., shape, structure, context, and experience) as a framework for refining the definition of traditional offline communities and for developing a definition of online communities that can be effectively operationalized. The methods and quantitative measures of social network analysis are proposed as appropriate tools for investigating the nature and function of communities because they can be used to quantify the typically subjective social phenomena generally associated with communities.