Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online

By Catherine M. Ridings, David Gefen. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Internet addiction: Meta-synthesis of qualitative research for the decade 1996-2006 (2008, background): “Ridings and Gefen (2004) determined that although sharing information was the prime reason or motivation for participating in online communities, secondary reasons such as social support, friendship , and recreation were also important.”
Cultural difference in motivations for using social network sites: A comparative study of American and Korean college students (2011, background): “Studies have indicated that people join a virtual community primarily for seeking information, social support, friendship, and recreation , and among these social support and friendship are the most central motives (Ridings and Gefen, 2004).”
Interactive Digital Advertising vs. Virtual Brand Community (2011, background): “Ridings and Gefen (2004) find that social support and friendship are the two major reasons people spend time in online communities.”
The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition (2019, background): “Indeed, one key difference which may separate how the brain handles online and offline social networks is the unique capacity afforded by the Internet for people to hold, and si multaneously interact with, millions of “friendships” 79,80 .”
Open and informal online communities as forums of collaborative musical activities and learning (2006, background): “Soc i a l r easons In comprehensive research on online communities in different fields, gaining new friendships and exchanging information were found to be the most important reasons for participation (Ridings & Gefen, 2004).”
Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups (2006, background): “They allow people to exchange information on a wide variety of technical, professional, health-related, and recreational topics, provide members with social support and a site to form friendships, and create a source of entertainment and distraction (Ridings & Gefen, 2004).”
Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community (2011, methodology): “connected to everyone else, either directly or indirectly without going through Wellman. This is a common feature in social networks. Next we used the overall clustering coefficient (the mean of the densities for all the nodes weighted by the number of their direct connections) to make our conclusio”
Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities (2011, background): “Recent research has noted that individual motivations (Ridings and Gefen 2004) and communication network structures (Fisher, Smith and Welser 2006) differ based on online community topic.”
Online Word-of-Mouth (or Mouse): An Exploration of Its Antecedents and Consequences (2006, background): “Ridings and Gefen (2004) identified information exchange, friendship, social support, and recreation as reasons for joining online communities.”
Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds (2012, background): “We think the findings could be generalized to many online communities that are organized around a particular topic such as health support, education, a hobby, or a profession (Preece 2000; Ridings and Gefen 2004).”
Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 to 2019 (2020, background): “This suggestion is important given that customers are actually more interested in other users’ recommendations and word-of-mouth rather than the vendor-created product information.(23)”
Rewarding in open innovation communities – how to motivate members (2010, neutral): “(Hagel and Armstrong, 1997; Wasko and Faraj, 2000; Ridings and Gefen, 2004).”