Conference paper
Social networks in transnational and virtual communities
Informing Science Institute
Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference (Pori, Finland, 24/06/2003–27/06/2003)
2003
Abstract
There has been extensive research on social networks but little is known about why some communities survive and some disintegrate. This paper provides a framework to explain similarities in many types of communities. In particular, a comparison of transnational communities and virtual communities highlights the efficacy of the framework in explaining how strong relationships within communities are dependent on social formation factors such as a sense of identity, social structures and social capital.
Details
- Title
- Social networks in transnational and virtual communities
- Authors/Creators
- N. Vivian (Author/Creator)F. Sudweeks (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference (Pori, Finland, 24/06/2003–27/06/2003)
- Publisher
- Informing Science Institute
- Identifiers
- 991005545281507891
- Copyright
- © Informing Science Institute. Published materials by Informing Science Institute is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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