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Introduction
Virtual Communities
As Agarwal and Liu (2008:1) state: “Individuals experience a sense of community, a feeling of belonging, a bonding that members matter to one another and their niche needs will be met through online interactions.”
In order to understand the how social networks and social activities behave on the internet we must understand the concept behind them which is virtual communities.
Chin and Chignell (2006) consider virtual community important because people tend to gain the benefits of social relations with other like minded people. They also define virtual communities as accumulated social discussions that emerged from the internet when people carry these discussions publicly with human passion and for a certain period of time to create networks of personal relationships in the internet, from this raised a new common point that members of a community experience which is “Sense of Community” (SOC) which they define as the feeling that members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith the members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together . (Blogs)
Online Communities
An online community is a form of virtual community that exists online where members contribute positively to ensure it existence. It can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as Weblogs. Online communities have also become a supplemental form of communication between people who know each other primarily in real life.
The development of networking and communication technologies in recent years has completely set a revolution in the way information is acquired, stored and disseminated. A significant transformation of the traditional face-to-face communities to online communities, has allowed users of the internet to reach out to their counterpart in a manner that is unimaginable. A critical review of online communities will be considered, with the aim to propose a sequence of success attributed to the migration from offline to online communities. Fichter (2005) recognizes considerable number of users in online communities as information consumers, ranging from reading world news to reviewing weather forecast. But acknowledge that many assumed the role of information providers with contribution to important topics such as wikis, blogs, more recently podcasts and videos.
Using collection and ordering guidelines, the remainder of this research work will be structured to review practitioner literature on online communities. Various definitions will be surveyed, classifications of online communities. The research will be narrowed down to understand the evolution of online communities and identify success factors in each stage of evolution, and security and privacy implications will be evaluated. The findings of the review can be organized as follows. Definitions will be explored, followed by the benefits that online communities bring to individuals, communities, and organizations. Conclusion will be drawn by providing recommendations for future research.(Online communities)
Articles
- Blogs: One of the most popular and common ways in the World Wide Web to give anyone the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions to a worldwide audience is the blog which is an accessible venue to for people to express a variety of ideas.
Discussion
From now on the Introduction would be restricted for integrity reasons!
ISAK dont you think, we should have a particular research titles in our respective areas. Cos taking it in general could be bulky, and will lack sense of direction for what d article will be addressing.Tnx xpecting to hear from you.
Good idea but I think we should discuss it with Mr Cain first.
ISAK, today we had a discussion with Mr. Evans about whether we can concentrate on a specific area of each topic. The first reaction was very positive.
Great! So now I can narrow my title on blogs :)
Hi friends, I think we should change the names under the articles namespace from our names to the titles of our articles. What do you think?
I agree with salameh's suggestion , even I was thinking to change it to article's titles. It will be more descriptive. Lets change it.
I couldn't agree more! Visitors here are interested on the information they are looking for and secondly for the writers.
Hi, Kosta hope you are doing good with your research work,you may check this materials on the following links whether they will be helpful to you. Wikis in Education: Is Public Better? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.102.3123&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Wikis at work: success factors and challenges for sustainability of enterprise Wikis http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/138573/WikiSymSustainability.pdf
Wikis as a knowledge management tool http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/mtpx/km/material/JKM-13-4b.pdf
Interesting! I had already downloaded the first one from acm. I think that the third is very usefull for my topic.
Hello Salameh, hope you are doing good with your research work,you may check this materials on the following links whether they will be helpful to you.
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1410314&type=pdf&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=16483782&CFTOKEN=13708561
Taking the high road: Blogging for votes: the ethics of internet campaigning http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1473199&type=pdf&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=16483782&CFTOKEN=13708561
Using blogging to enhance the initiation of students into academic research
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1808548
Thanks a lot Ibrahim
Hello Asma, hope you are doing good with your research work,you may check this materials on the following links whether they will be helpful to you.
Use and reuse of shared lists as a social content type
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1357296&type=pdf&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=16483782&CFTOKEN=13708561
Increasing Interactivity in Street View Web Navigation Systems
http://www.itowns.fr/publications/ACM2010Devaux.pdf
thanks Ibrahim :)
Ibrahim,have o look on these two links . You may find something useful about your article.
Email and PIM: Problems and Possibilities
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.109.2691&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Privacy and security for online social networks: challenges and opportunities.
http://it.aut.uah.es/jdp/ar/actividad01/trabajo07.pdf
Thanks Mr. Kosta am grateful
SAK, what is the status of the introduction page? I think is high time to put it in the wiki, so that by now we should be thinking of calling meeting to address our conclusion. Thanks
Hi Ibrahim, The introduction page is not restricted anymore, so if you want to add you part you can do it. but please leave the article's names as they is, I'll change them later :)
Hi, Though i have posted my introduction, but i think it will be better to sit together and brainstorm the connectivity of the paragraphs.So that the introduction will focus on our individual area of SNS consideration. or what do you think lady and gentlemen?
I think we should sit together and discuss about the Introduction page.