SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation

Juliana de Melo Bezerra, Celso Massaki Hirata

2011

Abstract

In a self-organizing virtual community, the members are responsible for defining the norms that govern the community. A model for self-organizing virtual communities is proposed. The model is useful to study a self-organizing community and understand how it is structured in order to improve its self-organization feature. The model is used in two investigations. We investigate the need of self-organization feature by virtual communities. We also investigate the participation of members in the self-organization process, by identifying the categories of members that contribute significantly during the elaboration of norms.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

de Melo Bezerra J. and Massaki Hirata C. (2011). SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 486-493. DOI: 10.5220/0003345204860493

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist11,
author={Juliana de Melo Bezerra and Celso Massaki Hirata},
title={SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={486-493},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003345204860493},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - SELF-ORGANIZATION OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES - Need and Members’ Participation
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - de Melo Bezerra J.
AU - Massaki Hirata C.
PY - 2011
SP - 486
EP - 493
DO - 10.5220/0003345204860493