1st Edition
Social Computing and Virtual Communities
1. Theoretical Foundations of Social Computing and Virtual Communities; Charalambos Vrasidas and George Veletsianos
2. An Overview of Social Networks; Gindo Tampubolon
3. Research Methods 2.0: Doing Research Using Virtual Communities; Paul Cairns and Mark Blythe
4. E-Learning Communities; Andrew Laghos
5. Technology-Enhanced Health Communities: Research on the Use of Social Computing Applications byBoth the Sick and the Well; Laura Slaughter, Aksel Tjora, and Anne-Grete Sandaunet
6. Online Support Communities; Ulrike Pfeil
7. Online Content Sharing; Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Hope, Hideaki Takeda, and Takuichi Nishimura
8. From Online Familiarity to Offline Trust: How a Virtual Community Creates Familiarity and Trust between Strangers; Paula Bialski and Dominik Batorski
9 Second Life, Immersion, and Learning; Diane Carr and Martin Oliver
10. Residency, Relationships, and Responsibility: The Social Side of World of Warcraft; David White
11. Perceiving an Internet Community as a "Utopia": Beliefs, Norms, and Resistance among Older Chinese; Bo Xie
12. Social Network Sites: An Exploration of Features and Diversity; Mike Thelwall and David Stuart
Biography
Panayiotis Zaphiris, Chee Siang Ang
I recommend this book to undergraduate teachers and educational researchers seeking an overview of the topic and a clear understanding of the breadth of subject matter that encompasses online communication between people.
—S.M. Godwin, Computing Reviews, September 2011
