Establishing and maintaining an online community of academics: longitudinal evaluation of a virtual conference series

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Establishing and maintaining an online community of academics: longitudinal evaluation of a virtual conference series

Initiated in 1996, the CybErg international conference series is the only online conference series in the field of ergonomics. Using virtual settlement theory and a model of online community evolution, this article reports on a 12-year longitudinal investigation of the five conferences in the confer...

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Main Authors:	Thatcher, A., Straker, Leon, Pollock, Clare
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd 2011
Subjects:	virtual settlement theory online conferencing online community evolution knowledge transfer computer-supported cooperative work collaboration engagement
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12935

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