The quality of online social relationships
Communications of the ACM - How the virtual inspires the real
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Assessing differential usage of usenet social accounting meta-data
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How peer photos influence member participation in online communities
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Follow the (slash) dot: effects of feedback on new members in an online community
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-group interactions in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information and Management
Encouraging participation in virtual communities
Communications of the ACM - Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox
Follow the reader: filtering comments on slashdot
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ECSCW'03 Proceedings of the eighth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Information and Management
Future IS research in net-enabled organizations
ACM SIGMIS Database
Preferential behavior in online groups
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Engineering a virtual community for breast cancer patients
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Towards a formal data management strategy for a web-based community
International Journal of Web Based Communities
User loyalty and online communities: why members of online communities are not faithful
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment
Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
An exploration of concepts of community through a case study of UK university web production
Journal of Information Science
Leader emergence in an Internet environment
Computers in Human Behavior
Analysis of scale effects in peer-to-peer networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A Model for Knowledge Innovation in Online Learning Community
Edutainment '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment
Empirical evidence of information overload constraining chat channel community interactions
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Network structure, position, ties and ICT use in distributed knowledge-intensive work
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Journal of Management Information Systems
The Influence of On-Line Brand Community Characteristics on Community Commitment and Brand Loyalty
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Exploring contributions of public resources in social bookmarking systems
Decision Support Systems
Fostering the determinants of knowledge sharing in professional virtual communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Information and Management
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A formal design of web community interactivity
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
A conceptual model for dimensions impacting employees' participation in enterprise social tagging
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
A typology of social networking sites users
International Journal of Web Based Communities
"Cool" or "monster"?: company takeovers and their effect on open source community participation
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Towards promoting interactivity in a B2B web community
Information Systems Frontiers
Donate for credibility: how contribution incentives can improve credibility
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Contribution behaviors in distributed environments
MIS Quarterly
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
Organization Science
Boosting participation in virtual communities
CRIWG'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities
Organization Science
Research Note---The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities
Information Systems Research
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
The life and death of online groups: predicting group growth and longevity
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
An economic model of user rating in an online recommender system
UM'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on User Modeling
Sustainability of Vertical Standards Consortia as Communities of Practice: A Multilevel Framework
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Fresh faces in the crowd: turnover, identity, and commitment in online groups
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Searching for the goldilocks zone: trade-offs in managing online volunteer groups
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Communication and commitment in an online game team
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Twitter and the development of an audience: those who stay on topic thrive!
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Innovation impacts of using social bookmarking systems
MIS Quarterly
Deduced social networks for an educational digital library
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
The Cross-Purposes of Cross-Posting: Boundary Reshaping Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Information Systems Research
The influence of self-discrepancy between the virtual and real selves in virtual communities
Computers in Human Behavior
"What's coming next?" Epistemic curiosity and lurking behavior in online communities
Computers in Human Behavior
Leader personal influences on membership decisions in moderated online social networking groups
Decision Support Systems
Online social networks: A survey of a global phenomenon
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
Consequences of content diversity for online public spaces for local communities
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Personality-targeted design: theory, experimental procedure, and preliminary results
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Influence of group size on students' participation in online discussion forums
Computers & Education
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
Theory and Analysis of Company-Sponsored Value Co-Creation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Recommendation in Online Health Communities
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Understanding Group Dynamics in Health Forums
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Getting Real About Virtual Worlds: A Review
International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking
Community insights: helping community leaders enhance the value of enterprise online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CommunityCompare: visually comparing communities for online community leaders in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lists as coping strategy for information overload on Twitter
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
International Journal of e-Collaboration
The role of founders in building online groups
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
International Journal of e-Collaboration
Analysis of cluster formations on planer cells based on genetic programming
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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As telecommunication networks become more common, there is an increasing interest in the factors underlying the development of online social structures. It has been proposed that these structures are new forms of organizing which are not subject to the same constraints as traditional social structures. However, from anecdotal evidence and case studies it is difficult to evaluate whether online social structures are subject to the same problems as traditional social structures. Drawing from prior studies of traditional social structures and empirical analyses of longitudinal data from a sample of Internet-based groups, this exploratory work considers the role of size and communication activity in sustainable online social structures.A resource-based theory of sustainable social structures is presented. Members contribute time, energy, and other resources, enabling a social structure to provide benefits for individuals. These benefits, which include information, influence, and social support, are the basis for a social structure's ability to attract and retain members. This model focuses on the system of opposing forces that link membership size as a component of resource availability and communication activity as an aspect of benefit provision to the sustainability of an online social structure. Analyses of data from a random sample of e-mail-based Internet social structures (listservs) indicate that communication activity and size have both positive and negative effects on a structure's sustainability. These results suggest that while the use of networked communication technologies may alter the form of communication, balancing the opposing impacts of membership size and communication activity in order to maintain resource availability and provide benefits for current members remains a fundamental problem underlying the development of sustainable online social structures.