Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies

Biometrics in virtual communities and digital governments / Chang-Tsun Li

Building trust in virtual communities / István Mezgár

Business advantage of community knowledge / Henny de Vos and Carla Verwijs

Business applications of virtual communities / Susan A. Baim

Cancer patient-to-patient online discussion groups / Roy Rada

Codes of ethics in virtual communities / Cãlin Gurãu

Collaboration, communication, and learning in a virtual community / Seungyeon Han and Janette R. Hill

Collaborative information management system for science domains / Ozgul Unal, Ersin C. Kaletas, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, H. Hakan Yakali, and Louis O. Hertzberger

Communicating in synchronous text-based virtual communities / Lynne D. Roberts, Leigh M. Smith, and Clare M. Pollock

Computer-mediated communication in virtual learning communities / Lisa Link and Daniela Wagner

Converting online community visitors into online consumers / Lee Moh Shan, Juliana Sutanto, Atreyi Kankanhalli, and Bernard C.Y. Tan

Copyright protection in virtual communities through digital watermarking / Huayin Si and Chang-Tsun Li

Copyright protection through digital watermarking / Farook Sattar and Dan Yu

Creating telepresence in virtual mediated environments / Sana Debbabi and Serge Baile

Cross-disciplinary learning in virtual teams / Scott P. Schaffer and Therese M. Schmidt

Cross-disciplinary virtual design teams / Scott P. Schaffer, Melissa Lee Price, and Therese M. Schmidt. Cultural diversity and the digital divide / Eulace Scott Rhoten

Cultural presence / Erik M. Champion

Culture in virtual communities / Li Xiao

Cyber rhetoric and online ethos / Kirk St. Amant

Cyberspace / Josh Lepawsky and Kyonghwan Park

Defining "virtual community" / Catherine M. Ridings

Detecting and responding to online deception / Neil C. Rowe

Developing virtual communities in transition economies / Panagiotis Damaskopoulos and Rimantas Gatautis

Differences in the use of media across cultures / Karen South Moustafa

Discussing health issues on the Internet / Jane Moon

Distance learning applications using virtual communities / Susan A. Baim

Draw to participate in virtual communities / Susan A. Baim

E-commerce product selection and evaluation services / Sheng-Uei Guan

Effective virtual working through communities of practice / Chris Kimble and Feng Li

E-leadership / David Gurr

E-learning models / Eulace Scott Rhoten

E-learning vs. traditional teaching methods / Chris Blackmore, Emmy van Deurzen, and Digby Tantam

Electronic auction service framework based on mobile software agents, An / Sheng-Uei Guan

Electronic networks of practice and communities of practice / Robin Teigland and Molly McLure Wasko

Engaging organisational culture to overcome social barriers in virtual communities / Anzela Huq

Establishing and sustaining trust in virtual organizations / Jing Wang and Kholekile Gwebu. Ethics of deception in virtual communities / Neil C. Rowe

Examining social structure in an electronic network of practice / Molly McLure Wasko and Robin Teigland

Extending online communities through virtual parallel systems / Chu Jong and Pruthikrai Mahatanankoon

Government applications of virtual communities / Susan A. Baim

Grey market informatics / Kirk St. Amant

Groupware and team aware / Mohamed Daassi and Marc Favier

How an association evolved using communities of practice / Anne Zender

Human resources and knowledge management based on e-democracy / Niki Lambropoulos

Hyperlink analysis / Mike Thelwall

ICT, CoLs, CoPs, and virtual communities / Antonio Cartelli

Implications of virtual schooling for socialization and community / Glenn Russell

Improving discussion in virtual communities / William Brescia

Influence on knowledge construction / Antonio Cartelli

Information integrity for CRM in a virtual world / Piyush Malik

Information navigation and knowledge discovery in virtual communities / Wenyuan Li, Wee-Keong Ng, and Kok-Leong Ong

Integrating visualization techniques in groupware interfaces / Mohamed Daassi, Chaouki Daassi, and Marc Favier

Intellectual property rights in open source software communities / Chitu Okoli and Kevin Carillo

Internet-mediated communities / Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini and Lilia Maria Vargas

Investor empowerment or market manipulation in financial virtual communities / John Campbell

Mediacommunication based on application-layer multicast / Gábor Hosszú MENOS organization, The / A. Hassan, K. Henttonen, and K. Blomqvist

Mobile internet and handheld devices for virtual communities / Wen-Chen Hu, Hung-Jen Yang, and Jyh-haw Yeh

Modelling stages of behaviour in social virtual communities / Lynne D. Roberts, Leigh M. Smith, and Clare M. Pollock

MOOs as virtual communities / Shannon Roper and Sharmila Pixy Ferris

Motivation in online communities / Patrick Waterson

Online consumer behavior / Ronald E. Goldsmith

Online deception types / Neil C. Rowe

Online empathy / Niki Lambropoulos

Online gaming / Mark Griffiths, Mark N.O. Davies, and Darren Chappell

Online group facilitation skills / Nancy White

Online social networking for new research opportunities / Lionel Mew

Open source software communities / Kevin Carillo and Chitu Okoli

Open-source software issues / Sofiane Sahraoui

Peer-to-peer technology for file sharing / S.H. Kwok, Y.M. Cheung and K.Y. Chan

Peer-to-peer wireless network confederation / Elias C. Efstathiou and George C. Polyzos

Peer-to-peer-based collaboration for virtual communities / Odej Kao and Ulf Rerrer

Predicting activity levels in virtual communities / Ori B. Kushnir

Psychological sense of community in virtual communities / Lynne D. Roberts, Leigh M. Smith, and Clare M. Pollock

Racial issues in the virtual classroom / Alfred P. Rovai and Louis B. Gallien, Jr

Representing virtual communities for advanced services / Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Elena García-Barriocanal. Reusable learning resources for virtual learning environments / Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Salvador Sánchez-Alonso

Sanctioning mechanisms in virtual communities / Elisa Bertino, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, and Elena Ferrari

Sociability and usability for active participation / Niki Lambropoulos

Social impact of virtual networking / Hakikur Rahman

Success of virtual environments / Benay P. Dara-Abrams

Supporting a virtual community for the elderly / Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and Filipa Ferrada

Technology-based models / Linda A. Brown

Telework and the academic librarian / Jo Ann Calzonetti and Aimée deChambeau

Trust between managers and subordinates in virtual communities / Karen South Moustafa

Trust in B2B e-commerce virtual communities / Eric Turner

Trust in virtual communities / Eun G. Park

Trust in virtual organizations / István Mezgár

Understanding knowledge bases and building membership in virtual communities / Susan A. Baim

Understanding virtual communities in online games / Kyonghwan Park and Josh Lepawsky

User acceptance of virtual technologies / Heshan Sun and Xue Xiao

User trust in the BBS communities / Hung Chim

Virtual campus of Nanyang Technological University / Alexei Sourin

Virtual collaborative design / Aybüke Aurum and Oya Demirbilek

Virtual communities and local youth e-democracy / Kosonen Miia, Cavén-Pöysä Outi, and Kirsimarja Blomqvist

Virtual communities and social capital theory / Catherine M. Ridings. Virtual communities and the alignment of Web ontologies / Krzysztof Juszczyszyn

Virtual communities for development / Deidra Fryer and Eric Turner

Virtual communities' impact on politics / Vasanthi Srinivasan

Virtual communities in an MBA / Françoise Dushinka Brailovsky Signoret

Virtual communities in banking customer retention / Dimitris Kardaras and Bill Karakostas

Virtual communities wish list / James Isaak

Virtual community as new marketing channel / Chingning Wang, Kangning Wei, and Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown

Virtual community models in relation to e-business models / Lee Moh Shan, Juliana Sutanto, Atreyi Kankanhalli, and Bernard C.Y. Tan

Virtual community sustainability / Ta-Tao Chuang

Virtual marketplace for agent-based electronic commerce / Sheng-Uei Guan

Virtual organizing online communities in support of knowledge synthesis / Kam Hou Vat

Virtual places / Erik M. Champion

Virtual reality technology in computer-aided production engineering / Vladimír Modrák and Jozef Novák Marcinín

Virtual reality user acceptance / Françoise Dushinka Brailovsky Signoret

Virtual teams classification / Kangning Wei and Chingning Wang

Virtually finding community in the third space / Samantha Bax

Web services and virtual communities / Qingyu Zhang

Web-based knowledge management model / Pei-Di Shen and Chia-Wen Tsai