Knowledge sharing in virtual communities &amp;ndash; a review of the empirical research

Kosonen, Miia

doi:10.1504/ijwbc.2009.023962

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“…The challenge is to improve elderly well-being through supporting the sharing of memories: working on the website will be also a way to get children in contact with past tales and the teaching value of elderly past experiences. Thanks to NoBits platform the two different generations will be able to create a sort of reminiscing community sharing knowledge of the past, like the ones reviewed by Kosonen (2009).…”

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Building collective memories on the web: the Nostalgia Bits project

Morganti

Riva

Bonfiglio³

et al. 2013

IJWBC

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The Nostalgia Bits (NoBits) project aims at fostering interaction between elderly and children through collecting memories. A web-based platform will be developed to allow tangible artefacts of an elderly person's life experience to become a resource to other generations and to connect the elderly users with members of their own generation. Here, we describe the results of a user needs analysis conducted by focus groups and questionnaires with end-users. The sample comprised 23 elderly (M = 65.83 SD = 6.32) and 310 children (M = 11.29 SD = 2.28). The findings were expanded through other two focus groups-one with ten elderly (M = 67.30 SD = 4.30) and one with 11 children (M = 12.45 SD = 1.21)-to obtain specific data for the development of a website based upon the suggestions collected through this user needs analysis. Results showed that both samples accepted the NoBits concept and that supporting collaborative reminiscing with social media is a promising approach to increase cross-generational interactions and mentoring.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building collective memories on the web: the Nostalgia Bits project

Morganti

Riva

Bonfiglio³

et al. 2013

IJWBC

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“…In our previous work, we showed that our methodology enhances community detection in communities of practice (CoP). Thus, to determine whether these results can be replicated with other communities we focused on communities of interest (CoI) which have been studied by many researchers such as Kosonen [ 19 ] and Porter [ 20 ]. The dark web corresponds to virtual communities of interests (VCoI) [ 19 , 20 ].…”

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Content Patterns in Topic-Based Overlapping Communities

Ríos

Munoz

2014

The Scientific World Journal

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Understanding the underlying community structure is an important challenge in social network analysis. Most state-of-the-art algorithms only consider structural properties to detect disjoint subcommunities and do not include the fact that people can belong to more than one community and also ignore the information contained in posts that users have made. To tackle this problem, we developed a novel methodology to detect overlapping subcommunities in online social networks and a method to analyze the content patterns for each subcommunities using topic models. This paper presents our main contribution, a hybrid algorithm which combines two different overlapping sub-community detection approaches: the first one considers the graph structure of the network (topology-based subcommunities detection approach) and the second one takes the textual information of the network nodes into consideration (topic-based subcommunities detection approach). Additionally we provide a method to analyze and compare the content generated. Tests on real-world virtual communities show that our algorithm outperforms other methods.

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“…Surprisingly, organizational scholars who study knowledge-sharing processes by use of knowledge management systems (for example) claim that what is actually shared by users on platforms for the sharing of work has yet to be adequately framed (Ardichvili, Page, & Wentling 2003). In particular, a knowledge gap seems to exist regarding the formation of sharing processes and how this is related to emergent properties coming from the use of NJSTS vol 6 issue 1 2018 48 recursive technology in work processes (Kosonen 2009). Instead, the knowledge management research stream has examined predefined assumptions of sharing (Chen & Hung 2010;Wasko & Faraj 2005) and conditions that prevent the sharing of knowledge in virtual communities (Ardichvili 2008;Ardichvili, Maurer, Li, Went Ling, & Stuedemann 2006;Ardichvili et al 2003).…”

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What is the meaning of sharing: informing, being informed or information overload?

Haugsbakken¹

2018

NJSTS

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In recent years, several Norwegian public organizations have introduced Enterprise Social Media Platforms. The rationale for their implementation pertains to a goal of improving internal communications and work processes in organizational life. Such objectives can be attained on the condition that employees adopt the platform and embrace the practice of sharing. Although sharing work on Enterprise Social Media Platforms can bring benefits, making sense of the practice of sharing constitutes a challenge. In this regard, the paper performs an analysis on a case whereby an Enterprise Social Media Platform was introduced in a Norwegian public organization. The analytical focus is on the challenges and experiences of making sense of the practice of sharing. The research results show that users faced challenges in making sense of sharing. The paper indicates that sharing is interpreted and performed as an informing practice, which results in an information overload problem and causes users to become disengaged. The study suggests a continued need for the application of theoretical lenses that emphasize interpretation and practice in the implementation of new digital technologies in organizations.

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Knowledge sharing in virtual communities – a review of the empirical research

Cited by 34 publications

References 58 publications

Building collective memories on the web: the Nostalgia Bits project

Building collective memories on the web: the Nostalgia Bits project

Content Patterns in Topic-Based Overlapping Communities

What is the meaning of sharing: informing, being informed or information overload?

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