附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
""Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities""""Computer-Mediated Communication in Virtual Learning Communities""; ""Converting Online Community Visitors into Online Consumers""; ""Copyright Protection in Virtual Communities through Digital Watermarking""; ""Copyright Protection through Digital Watermarking""; ""Creating Telepresence in Virtual Mediated Environments""; ""Cross-Disciplinary Learning in Virtual Teams""; ""Cross-Disciplinary Virtual Design Teams""; ""Cultural Diversity and the Digital Divide""; ""Cultural Presence""; ""Culture in Virtual Communities""
""Cyber Rhetoric and Online Ethos""""Cyberspace""; ""Defining ""Virtual Community""""; ""Detecting and Responding to Online Deception""; ""Developing Virtual Communities in Transition Economies""; ""Differences in the Use of Media Across Cultures""; ""Discussing Health Issues on the Internet""; ""Distance Learning Applications Using Virtual Communities""; ""Draw to Participate in Virtual Communities""; ""E-Commerce Product Selection and Evaluation Services""; ""Effective Virtual Working through Communities of Practice""; ""E-Leadership""; ""E-Learning Models""
""E-Learning vs. Traditional Teaching Methods""""An Electronic Auction Service Framework Based on Mobile Software Agents""; ""Electronic Networks of Practice and Communities of Practice""; ""Engaging Organisational Culture to Overcome Social Barriers in Virtual Communities""; ""Establishing and Sustaining Trust in Virtual Organizations""; ""Ethics of Deception in Virtual Communities""; ""Examining Social Structure in an Electronic Network of Practice""; ""Extending Online Communities through Virtual Parallel Systems""; ""Government Applications of Virtual Communities""
""Grey Market Informatics""""Groupware and Team Aware""; ""How an Association Evolved Using Communities of Practice""; ""Human Resources and Knowledge Management Based on E-Democracy""; ""Hyperlink Analysis""; ""ICT, CoLs, CoPs, and Virtual Communities""; ""Implications of Virtual Schooling for Socialization and Community""; ""Improving Discussion in Virtual Communities""; ""Influence on Knowledge Construction""; ""Information Integrity for CRM in a Virtual World""; ""Information Navigation and Knowledge Discovery in Virtual Communities""
摘要:"This encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies provides a much needed integrated overview of all the critical concepts, technologies and issues in the area of virtual communities"--Provided by publisher.