Virtual Communities on the Internet

This paper outlines the adaptation of in-depth interviewing using World Wide Web-based interviewing software between the interviewer and their subject. Through a structured, realtime interviewing process the researcher is able to use the Internet to facilitate communication, recording interviews directly to a file without incurring the costs associated with traditional face-to-face or telephone interviews. The benefits of this approach are the ability of the researcher to conduct inexpensive interviewing over distances and elimination of transcription costs from the research process, allowing the researcher to undertake a wider range of interviews than may be possible on a limited budget. The interview method has problems associated with the depth of material available from this approach, the loss of paralinguistic cues and the limited size of the available sample, limitations that must be accounted for by any researcher considering using the approach.

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Online Communities and Social Networking

Virtual Communities ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-100-3.ch106 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 74-83

Author(s):

Abhijit Roy

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Online Communities ◽

World Wide ◽

Social Bonds ◽

The Other ◽

Future Research ◽

The Internet ◽

Face To Face ◽

The World ◽

Definition Of

Technology has enabled communities to move beyond the physical face-to-face contacts to the online realm of the World Wide Web. With the advent of the highways in the 1950s and 1960s, “communities” were created in suburbia. The Internet, on the other hand, has over the last two decades, enabled the creation of a myriad of “online communities” (Green, 2007) that have limitless boundaries across every corner of the globe. This essay will begin by providing a definition of the term “online communities” and then describing several typologies of this phenomenon. The various motivations for joining communities, how marketers create social bonds that enhance social relationships, as well as strategies used by firms in building online communities are also discussed. We conclude by discussing strategies for managing online communities, leveraging them for social networking, researching them, as well as directions for future research.

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Online Communities and Social Networking

Social Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch004 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 45-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Abhijit Roy

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Online Communities ◽

World Wide ◽

Social Bonds ◽

The Other ◽

Future Research ◽

The Internet ◽

Face To Face ◽

The World ◽

Definition Of

Technology has enabled communities to move beyond the physical face-to-face contacts to the online realm of the World Wide Web. With the advent of the highways in the 1950s and 1960s, “communities” were created in suburbia. The Internet, on the other hand, has over the last two decades, enabled the creation of a myriad of “online communities” (Green, 2007) that have limitless boundaries across every corner of the globe. This essay will begin by providing a definition of the term “online communities” and then describing several typologies of this phenomenon. The various motivations for joining communities, how marketers create social bonds that enhance social relationships, as well as strategies used by firms in building online communities are also discussed. We conclude by discussing strategies for managing online communities, leveraging them for social networking, researching them, as well as directions for future research.

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A survey on internet of things: privacy with security of sensors and wearable network ip/protocols

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i2.33.13886 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3.3) ◽

pp. 200

Author(s):

Subrata Chowdhury ◽

Dr P. Mayilvahanan

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

World Wide ◽

The Other ◽

Security Threats ◽

The Core ◽

Other Hand ◽

The World ◽

Physical Objects ◽

Core Issues

The paper gives the introduction of the IoT, which lay forward the capabilties to detect and link with the world wide web with the con-nectivity to connect this with the physical objects into a cognate systems. On the other hand some severe concers as the part of the IoT, are been highlighted over the passage gateways of critical personal informations relevants to device and personalized privacy.This survey will summerize and tries to highlight the core issues related to the security threats,and the privacy interest of the IoT.

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Online Communities and Social Networking

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch145 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1072-1079

Author(s):

Abhijit Roy

Keyword(s):

Social Networking ◽

Online Communities ◽

World Wide ◽

Social Bonds ◽

The Other ◽

Future Research ◽

The Internet ◽

Face To Face ◽

The World ◽

Definition Of

Technology has enabled communities to move beyond the physical face-to-face contacts to the online realm of the World Wide Web. With the advent of the highways in the 1950s and 1960s, “communities” were created in suburbia. The Internet, on the other hand, has over the last two decades, enabled the creation of a myriad of “online communities” (Green, 2007) that have limitless boundaries across every corner of the globe. This essay will begin by providing a definition of the term “online communities” and then describing several typologies of this phenomenon. The various motivations for joining communities, how marketers create social bonds that enhance social relationships, as well as strategies used by firms in building online communities are also discussed. We conclude by discussing strategies for managing online communities, leveraging them for social networking, researching them, as well as directions for future research.

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Library Internet Resources: Conducting Performing Arts Research Online

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s004055740000329x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 97-104

Author(s):

Susan Brady

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Performing Arts ◽

World Wide ◽

The Internet ◽

Research Libraries ◽

The Past ◽

Internet Resources ◽

The World ◽

Electronic Access

Over the past decade academic and research libraries throughout the world have taken advantage of the enormous developments in communication technology to improve services to their users. Through the Internet and the World Wide Web researchers now have convenient electronic access to library catalogs, indexes, subject bibliographies, descriptions of manuscript and archival collections, and other resources. This brief overview illustrates how libraries are facilitating performing arts research in new ways.

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Public Access Technologies in Public Libraries: Effects and Implications

Information Technology and Libraries ◽

10.6017/ital.v28i2.3176 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 81 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

John Carlo Bertot

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Public Libraries ◽

Public Access ◽

The Internet ◽

Access Technology ◽

Initial Development ◽

Early Adopters ◽

The World ◽

Computer Services

<span>Public libraries were early adopters of Internet-based technologies and have provided public access to the Internet and computers since the early 1990s. The landscape of public-access Internet and computing was substantially different in the 1990s as the World Wide Web was only in its initial development. At that time, public libraries essentially experimented with publicaccess Internet and computer services, largely absorbing this service into existing service and resource provision without substantial consideration of the management, facilities, staffing, and other implications of public-access technology (PAT) services and resources. This article explores the implications for public libraries of the provision of PAT and seeks to look further to review issues and practices associated with PAT provision resources. While much research focuses on the amount of public access that </span><span>public libraries provide, little offers a view of the effect of public access on libraries. This article provides insights into some of the costs, issues, and challenges associated with public access and concludes with recommendations that require continued exploration.</span>

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Patterns of Searching for Information on the World Wide Web: A Pilot Study

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2003.92.3c.1091 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1091-1096 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽

Asako Miura

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Search Engines ◽

World Wide ◽

Information Sources ◽

Task Type ◽

The Other ◽

The World ◽

Selection Of ◽

Search Domain

The influences of task type on search of the World Wide Web using search engines without limitation of search domain were investigated. 9 graduate and undergraduate students studying psychology (1 woman and 8 men, M age = 25.0 yr., SD = 2.1) participated. Their performance to manipulate the search engines on a closed task with only one answer were compared with their performance on an open task with several possible answers. Analysis showed that the number of actions was larger for the closed task ( M = 91) than for the open task ( M = 46.1). Behaviors such as selection of keywords (averages were 7.9% of all actions for the closed task and 16.7% for the open task) and pressing of the browser's back button (averages were 40.3% of all actions for the closed task and 29.6% for the open task) were also different. On the other hand, behaviors such as selection of hyperlinks, pressing of the home button, and number of browsed pages were similar for both tasks. Search behaviors were influenced by task type when the students searched for information without limitation placed on the information sources.

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The Internet for Scientists and the World Wide Web for Scientists and Engineers: A Complete Reference for Navigating, Researching and Publishing Online

Physics Today ◽

10.1063/1.882414 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 51 (10) ◽

pp. 82-83

Author(s):

Kevin O'Donnell ◽

Larry Winger ◽

Brian J. Thomas ◽

Steven Bachrach

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

World Wide ◽

The Internet ◽

The World ◽

Scientists And Engineers

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A Simulation of the Structure of the World-Wide Web

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.684 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 9-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Moses Boudourides ◽

Gerasimos Antypas

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Power Law ◽

Web Sites ◽

World Wide ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Pages ◽

Small Worlds ◽

Web Page ◽

Simple Simulation ◽

The World

In this paper we are presenting a simple simulation of the Internet World-Wide Web, where one observes the appearance of web pages belonging to different web sites, covering a number of different thematic topics and possessing links to other web pages. The goal of our simulation is to reproduce the form of the observed World-Wide Web and of its growth, using a small number of simple assumptions. In our simulation, existing web pages may generate new ones as follows: First, each web page is equipped with a topic concerning its contents. Second, links between web pages are established according to common topics. Next, new web pages may be randomly generated and subsequently they might be equipped with a topic and be assigned to web sites. By repeated iterations of these rules, our simulation appears to exhibit the observed structure of the World-Wide Web and, in particular, a power law type of growth. In order to visualise the network of web pages, we have followed N. Gilbert's (1997) methodology of scientometric simulation, assuming that web pages can be represented by points in the plane. Furthermore, the simulated graph is found to possess the property of small worlds, as it is the case with a large number of other complex networks.

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