Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds

By Yuqing Ren, Max Harper, Sara Drenner, Sara B. Kiesler, Loreen Terveen, John Riedl, Robert E. Kraut. MIS Q., 2012

633 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bf953979616db988a379781f21b6cc7204987ef7

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In Communication

1. Choong‐Ki Lee
2. F. Maxwell Harper
3. Mingfeng Lin
4. Myung Ja Kim
5. J. Konstan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Myung Ja Kim
2. Choong‐Ki Lee
3. Paulo B. Góes
4. Ching-man Au Yeung
5. Mark Bonn
6. Mingfeng Lin
7. J. Konstan
8. T. Lee

Citations in the corpus

• The effect of social capital and altruism on seniors' revisit intention to social network sites for tourism-related purposes (2016, background): “Since altruism has been shown to influence behaviors toward online communities (e.g., Fiedler & Sarstedt, 2010; Ma & Chan, 2014; Ren et al., 2007, 2012), we expect this factor to help explain the use of SNSs by seniors for tourism-related activities.”
• The MovieLens Datasets: History and Context (2016, background): “This design was the result of a large-scale field study of the differential influences in an online community of building interpersonal friendships or group identities [Ren et al. 2012; Harper et al. 2007b].”
• "Popularity Effect" in User-Generated Content: Evidence from Online Product Reviews (2014, background): “It also supplements the large literature on online communities (Yuqing et al., 2012), especially how user interactions affect participation behaviors.”