Constructing community in cyberspace

In this panel, a group of researchers, each of whom has either constructed tools for communicating and community building in cyberspace or studied the process, present their own work and critically evaluate each other's work. Our perspective explores ...

The sense of virtual community is a principal construct in virtual community research. Therefore understanding it in depth is important for studies of communities-of-practice, virtual collaboration, virtual organization, and other critical ...

Sense of virtual community (SOVC) reflects the feeling that individual members have of belonging to an online social group. Yet there is a lack of investigation focusing on its individual-level antecedents. We argue that in order to enhance ...