SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation

Juliana de Melo Bezerra, Celso Massaki Hirata

2011

Abstract

In a self-organizing virtual community, the members are responsible for defining the norms that govern the community. A model for self-organizing virtual communities is proposed. The model is useful to study a self-organizing community and understand how it is structured in order to improve its self-organization feature. The model is used in two investigations. We investigate the need of self-organization feature by virtual communities. We also investigate the participation of members in the self-organization process, by identifying the categories of members that contribute significantly during the elaboration of norms.

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de Melo Bezerra J. and Massaki Hirata C. (2011). SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 486-493. DOI: 10.5220/0003345204860493


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@conference{webist11,
author={Juliana de Melo Bezerra and Celso Massaki Hirata},
title={SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={486-493},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003345204860493},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - de Melo Bezerra J.
AU - Massaki Hirata C.
PY - 2011
SP - 486
EP - 493
DO - 10.5220/0003345204860493