Open AccessSocial and commercial sustainability of regional web-based communities
Author(s) -
Andrew Connery,
Helen Hasan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of web based communities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1741-8216
pISSN - 1477-8394
DOI - 10.1504/ijwbc.2005.006925
Subject(s) - sustainability , value (mathematics) , computer science , world wide web , knowledge management , web application , sociology , ecology , machine learning , biology
New information and communications technologies have disrupted many traditional forms of community but enabled the emergence of new ones. This paper examines pertinent characteristics of communities, before describing three case studies of commercially operated web-based communities. The research demonstrates the social and commercial value of the concept of community.
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