Evaluating information accessibility and community adaptivity features for sustaining virtual learning communities

Toward an Understanding of Uses and Gratifications Theory and the Sense of Virtual Community on Knowledge Sharing in Online Game Communities

“…Through the sense of virtual community, individuals concern each other and thereby have willingness to participate more activities in virtual communities [7] and share their knowledge to other members [18]. According to previous research, the sense of belonging in a specific community is suggested to influence the motivation of knowledge sharing [7], [40]. Moreover, Chiu et al, [11] empirically demonstrated that identification which exhibited a sense of belonging toward a virtual community and significantly increased individuals' knowledge contribution [40].…”

“…Several scholars further regard it as a sense of virtual community, cultivated in a web-based context [18], [25]. Through the sense of virtual community, individuals concern each other and thereby have willingness to participate more activities in virtual communities [7] and share their knowledge to other members [18]. According to previous research, the sense of belonging in a specific community is suggested to influence the motivation of knowledge sharing [7], [40].…”

“…The phenomenon of online gamer's behaviors have been emerged as a crucial issue nowadays. Another recent advance with Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs) has forged the interested parties to establish virtual communities [7]. Virtual communities refer to the groups of Internet users who repeatedly contact and frequently interact with other people through ICTs within a specified boundary [8], [9].…”

“…Virtual communities refer to the groups of Internet users who repeatedly contact and frequently interact with other people through ICTs within a specified boundary [8], [9]. The aggregations of virtual communities were individuals who establish and maintain personal relationships in cyberspace, which based on common interests, shared values, or goals [7], [10]. In order to enhance individuals' competitiveness in game world, more and more people enthusiastically participate in varieties of virtual communities, especially in MMORPGs communities, for searching, acquiring, and collecting knowledge to resolve problems at game world [11], [12].…”

“…In order to enhance individuals' competitiveness in game world, more and more people enthusiastically participate in varieties of virtual communities, especially in MMORPGs communities, for searching, acquiring, and collecting knowledge to resolve problems at game world [11], [12]. Individuals can easily interact with other members across time and space and cooperate with each other to obtain information and knowledge in virtual communities [7], [12]. Accordingly, members will continue to cultivate the intimate connections and deepen the relationships to achieve knowledge exchange and accumulate knowledge assets of their virtual community.…”