Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media
Author: Demosthenes Akoumianakis
IGI Global: 2009
(EN: This book is a collection of academic papers written by different authors, so it's likely to suffer from internal inconsistencies and a lack of overall coherence. It also stands to note that the editor and a majority of the authors have associations to European colleges and institutes, so that will influence the perspective.)
- New Media, Communities, and Social Practice
- Conditions and Key Success Factors for the Management of Communities of Practice
- The Search for 'Hidden' Virtual Communities of Practice
- The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry
- The Role of Participatory Design in Constructing the Virtual Knowledge Commons
- The 'Social Experience Factory' and the Fabrics of Collaboration
- Building Virtual Communities to Enhance the Digital Interactive Television Viewing Experience
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Visualization Within Virtual Communities
- Grids in Community Settings
- Socializing in Online Gaming Communities
- Social Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
- Virtual Community Practice Toolkits Using 3D Imaging Technologies
- Using Activity Theory to Assess the Effectiveness of an Online Learning Community
- Interaction, Imagination and Community Building at the Math Forum
- Designing Practice-Oriented Interactive Vocabularies for Workflow-Based Virtual CoP
- Developing User Interfaces for Community-Oriented Workflow Information Systems
- Virtual Communities in Health and Social Cares
- Research Communities in Context
- Virtual Music Performance Communities
- Sustainable E-Learning Communities
- Cross-Organization Virtual Communities of Practice in E-Tourism