Encouraging participation in virtual communities

By Joon-Sung Koh, Young-Gul Kim, Brian S. Butler, Gee-Woo Bock. CACM, 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management

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Predicting length of membership in online community "everything2" using feedback (2012, background): “Studies have shown that user retention is a challenge even for popular online communities, including user generated content based communities [4, 6].”
The Influence of On-Line Brand Community Characteristics on Community Commitment and Brand Loyalty (2008, background): “, rules, reward systems) directly affect members’ commitment and intention to participate in an on-line community [31, 60].”
Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects (2015, background): “…[75], including OSS development [32] Although the literature underscores cultural differences among participants as an important aspect [38, 46, 58, 61], the systematic review conducted by Steinmacher et al. showed that few studies investigated or dealt with cultural issues in distributed…”
Research Note - The Impact of Community Commitment on Participation in Online Communities (2011, background): “Once participation is considered more precisely (Williams and Cothrel 2000), it becomes clear that a single common set of antecedents is unlikely to have identical impacts across these three very different kinds of behaviors (Koh et al. 2007).”
Understanding Online Community User Participation: A Social Influence Perspective (2011, background): “…multiple theories, such as technology acceptance model (TAM), trust theory, social cognitive theory, social capital theory and social network theory, to explore online community user participation (Ridings et al., 2002; Hsu and Lu, 2007; Hsu et al., 2007; Koh et al., 2007; Toral et al., 2009).”
Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies (2015, background): “Motivating users to participate in community activities has been seen as key to successful online communities (Koh & Kim, 2004; Koh, Kim, Butler, & Bock, 2007).”
Understanding sustained participation in transactional virtual communities (2012, background): “Sustainability of virtual communities is an important criterion for measuring the success of VCs (Koh et al., 2007; Teo et al., 2003).”
Age differences in perceptions of online community participation among non-users: An extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (2010, background): “As one important element for the survival of online communities is the provision of useful content, perceived usefulness is one core construct to examine in the study of the online community participation decision (Koh et al., 2007).”