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The ABC’s of Online Community

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Web Intelligence: Research and Development (WI 2001)

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Online community is having growing social and commercial impact on the WWW, but what does “community” mean online? Can the level of community be measured? This article articulates an evidential conceptual model of community synthesizing earlier definitions drawn from the literature and creating new core conditions. The four conditions, purpose, commitment, context and infrastructure, we believe are necessary and sufficient for modeling and gauging intra-community “glue”, and that without this glue sustainable community cannot manifest.

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  1. Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Brisbane, Australia

    Robert McArthur & Peter Bruza

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  1. Robert McArthur
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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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McArthur, R., Bruza, P. (2001). The ABC’s of Online Community. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_16

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