Sociability Design Guidelines for the Online Gaming Community: Role Play and Reciprocity

Pan, Yu; Kuo, Liangwen; Lee, Jim Jiunde

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73257-0_47

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“…Although the concepts sociability, social presence, and social space have been applied only to CSCL in this article, it is easy to expand them and apply them to other sociotechnological systems such as social software (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), online gaming environments, online communities (of practice), virtual learning networks, and even 3D virtual environments (e.g., Second Life). In fact, that is what some scholars are already doing (see, e.g., Gao et al, 2010;Pan, Kuo, & Lee, 2007;Stockdale & Thompson, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Social Aspects of CSCL Environments: A Research Framework

Kreijns¹,

Kirschner²,

Vermeulen³

2013

Educational Psychologist

169

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Social Aspects of CSCL Environments: A Research Framework

Kreijns¹,

Kirschner²,

Vermeulen³

2013

Educational Psychologist

169

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“…For example, researchers have verified that an increase in the number of reciprocity messages the actor broadcasts in online social networks increases the reciprocity reactions from his or her audience [21]. Similarly, some scholars have found that there is a consistent reciprocal mode between the information users publish and the answer they receive in an online gaming community [48].…”

Section: Principal Findingsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Impact of the Price of Gifts From Patients on Physicians’ Service Quality in Online Consultations: Empirical Study Based on Social Exchange Theory

Wang¹,

Wu²,

Xia³

et al. 2020

J Med Internet Res

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Background Gift giving from patients to physicians, which is prohibited in traditional clinical settings in China, has been found to occur in online health communities. However, there is debate on the validity of online gifts since physicians gain an economic benefit. Moreover, the potential impact of these gifts, particularly with respect to the financial value of the gift, on the online consultation service quality remains unexplored. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the impact of gift price on the quality of physicians’ online consultation service. Insight into this impact is expected to help resolve existing debate on the appropriateness of the gift-giving practice in online consultations. Methods A dataset of 141 physicians and 4249 physician-patient interactions was collected from the Good Physician Online website, which is the largest online consultation platform in China. Based on social exchange theory, we investigated how gift price affects the quality of physicians’ online consultation service and how this impact changes according to the physician’s service price and number of all gifts received. Manual annotation was used to identify the information support paragraphs and emotional support paragraphs in the answers of physicians. The quality of the information support paragraphs, rather than the complete answer, was used to test the robustness of our model. Results Gift price had a positive impact on the quality of physicians’ online consultation service (β=4.941, P<.01). This impact was negatively mediated by both the physician’s service price (β=–9.245, P<.001) and the total number of gifts they received (β=–5.080, P<.001). Conclusions Gift price has a positive impact on physicians’ online behavior, although the impact varies among physicians.

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“…With sociability, an mdividual must share their personal thoughts and objectives when dealing with others rather than holding them private [lO]. In an analysis of online gaming communities, Pan, Kou & Lee [11] defined sociability from the Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) perspective as "The sociability-related strategy and technical structure which can promote an intimate relationship, friendly communication process and togetherness in the group, and which supports group collaboration to achieve the common goals" (p.7). Sociability in online gaming can be enhanced from the group cooperation and communication tools that connect members in the community [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…have looked at current features in existing onlme commumtles and come up with ideas for future features that online communities and social software from various areas should have, in order to increase sociability among users in the network [4], [11],[l3], [15] . Many researchers have come across the importance of sociability aspects in various research areas because the role of members and their active participation to establish relationships will leads to successful online communities.…”

Section: B Sociability Aspects In Generalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociability aspects in e-health community: A review

Abdullah

Zakaria

2010

2010 International Symposium on Information Technology

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Online communities are all about social interaction.There are places for support, entertainment, information, knowledge sharing and even a way to interact with millions of people all over the world. An e-health community serves as a medium for patients and survivors to support each other and to improve their lives as patients need more emotional support to struggle with their disease. Technical accuracy alone is not enough to make online communities successful -they must also focus on the social aspects. Previous studies have highlighted the role of sociability in many research areas. This paper will discuss social software narrowing to online communities; summarize the sociability aspects that have been applied in various research areas and particularly in the e-health community.

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Sociability Design Guidelines for the Online Gaming Community: Role Play and Reciprocity

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Social Aspects of CSCL Environments: A Research Framework

Social Aspects of CSCL Environments: A Research Framework

Impact of the Price of Gifts From Patients on Physicians’ Service Quality in Online Consultations: Empirical Study Based on Social Exchange Theory

Sociability aspects in e-health community: A review

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