Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of Online Social Structures

By Brian S. Butler. Information systems research, 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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From Conservation to Crowdsourcing: A Typology of Citizen Science (2011, background): “The hierarchical form of most projects differs from peer production, however, and likely creates a different sense of community with respect to authority, leadership, decision-making and sustainability [19].”
Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities (2007, background): “Other organizations are investing extensively in online community infrastructures with the goal of facilitating employee communication and learning (Butler 2001).”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, background): “Multiplexity also describes IT-enabled networks, in terms of the channels across which a relationship can occur (i.e., online vs. offline relationship; Wellman et al. 1996) and the content provided by a particular channel (e.g., different USENET groups; Wellman and Gulia 1997).”
Which Problems to Solve? Online Knowledge Sharing and Attention Allocation in Organizations (2014, background): “If more problems are posted to the forum on a regular basis, the activity on that forum generally will be greater (see Butler, 2001; Markus, 1987).”
Outcomes to Partners in Multi-Stakeholder Cross-Sector Partnerships: A Resource-Based View (2019, background): “Given the different dynamics between small CSSPs and multi-stakeholder partnerships, it is unclear whether partners in both experience the same resource gains or something different (Butler, 2001).”
Dimensions of leadership and social influence in online communities (2010, background): “Butler (2001) argues that communication activity creates online social structures that facilitate information exchange, influences social behavior, and even draws new users into the fold.”
Information Overload and the Message Dynamics of Online Interaction Spaces: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Exploration (2004, background): “The online spaces used for shared public interpersonal communications (enabled by technologies such as e-mail lists, Internet relay chat channels, and Usenet newsgroups) are of significant social, organizational, and economic importance (Rheingold 1993, Hagel and Armstrong 1997, Butler 2001).”
Understanding consumer intention to participate in online travel community and effects on consumer intention to purchase travel online and WOM: An integration of innovation diffusion theory and TAM with trust (2016, positive): “…theory (Tiwana & Bush, 2005); the technology acceptance model (Venkatesh, 2000); theories of social networks and Social Network Analysis (Faraj & Johnson, 2011; Toral, Martínez-Torres, & Barrero, 2010); critical mass theory (Raban, Moldovan, & Jones, 2010); and resource-based theory (Butler, 2001).”
Membership Turnover and Collaboration Success in Online Communities: Explaining Rises (2011, background): “Most previous work on this topic has assumed that membership retention is a positive condition for online communities (e.g., Arguello et al. 2006; Butler 2001; Lazar and Preece 2002; Ma and Agarwal 2007), which may have been true for previous generations of online communities but does not appear…”
Usability and Sociability in Online Communities: A Comparative Study of Knowledge Seeking and Contribution (2009, background): “Online communities have become increasingly prevalent in recent years (Butler, 2001; Jones et al., 2004; Ma and Agarwal, 2007).”
Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities (2011, background): “Recognizing the primacy of communication in online communities, some studies examine individuals within the context of a communication network while others view the communication network structure itself as the subject of inquiry (e.g., Butler 2001, Jones, Ravid and Rafaeli 2004, Rice 1982).”
Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet. (2004, methodology): “For example, Butler (2001) was able to study attraction of individuals to groups and their retention by surreptitiously creating an archive of all messages sent to 206 online groups over a three-month period.”
Applying Common Identity and Bond Theory to Design of Online Communities (2007, result): “Another study also found similar results: larger online groups with more traffic had more turnover (Butler 2001).”