Name
Abstract | ||
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Peoples' need to socialize with others and greed for power can be best captured with Aristotle's description of human beings as "political animals"/"social animals." This paper reports on observations of how cyber communities, such as Web-based forums and mailing lists, manifest themselves through social interactions and shared values, membership and friendship, and commitments and loyalty. The paper highlights the importance of power relations in these communities, how they are formed, exercised and evolve. This paper explores power relations as they emerge in two online Vietnamese communities and suggests a new understanding of the formation and evolution of power in virtual societies. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2006 | 10.1007/s10660-006-5986-9 | Electronic Commerce Research |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
ethnographic study,human being,social interaction,power relation,paper report,social animal,web-based forum,online vietnamese community,mailing list,new understanding,virtual community,power relations . virtual community . knowledge management . national culture,cyber community,knowledge management,global information systems | Social animal,Friendship,Public relations,Computer science,Loyalty,Creating shared value,Socialization,Ethnography,Politics,Marketing,Virtual community | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
6 | 1 | 1572-9362 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.84 | 4 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemai Nguyen | 1 | 176 | 17.41 |
| Luba Torlina | 2 | 18 | 4.28 |
| Konrad Peszynski | 3 | 27 | 2.16 |
| Brian Corbitt | 4 | 8 | 0.84 |