The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

By H. Rheingold. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Human-Computer Interaction

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Contributing Knowledge to Electronic Knowledge Repositories: An Empirical Investigation (2005, background): “For example, the time and effort required to codify and input knowledge into EKRs (Ba et al. 2001; Markus 2001) can act as an opportunity cost that precludes knowledge contributors from per forming alternative tasks at that time and accruing the corresponding rewards.”
Electronic Commerce and Organizational Innovation: Aspects and Opportunities (2003, background): “The forum aspect of the Web gives rise to virtual communities [84].”
The Secret Life of Online Moms: Anonymity and Disinhibition on YouBeMom.com (2013, background): “…the empathetic culture of largely supportive parenting sites like iVillage.com or babycenter.com (Mickelson 1997; Plantin and Daneback 2009; Rheingold 1993; Sarkadi and Bremberg 2005) versus the culture of more degrading sites like 4chan, an anonymous and inhospitable discussion board best…”
Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016, background): “[8,9]) have insisted that the effects have been beneficial in many different ways (for reviews, see [10,11]).”
The Economic Leverage of the Virtual Community (2001, background): “For a detailed history of the development of virtual reality, virtual communities, and the Internet, see Rheingold [55, 56] and Kitchin [32], For an analysis of the research-related implications of the information-intensive environment, see Mahajan and Venkatesh [39].”
Computer-Mediated Communication and The Public Sphere: A Critical Analysis (2006, background): “themselves as having been transformed through such interaction (Rheingold, 1993; Turkle, 1995).”
The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government (2003, background): “Some scholars see information technology as the most important ingredient for creating a more participatory democracy and increasing confidence in government (Toffler 1995; Norris 2001; Bimber 2003; Budge 1996; Rheingold 1993; Grossman 1995).”