Although groups have been interacting online since the 1970s, the notion of virtual
community is relatively recent and has particular connotations (Turkle, 1995). Rheingold …

This paper draws upon 50 interviews and a survey (N= 700) to understand how young
people in Argentina manage the proliferation of social media platforms in their everyday …

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling
users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin …

An online learning community enables learners to access up-to-date information via the
Internet anytime–anywhere because of the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW) …

Over the past two decades, organizational scholars have increasingly argued that
technology's affects on organizations are socially constructed. Constructivists who study …

In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing
ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of …

Social robots will become ubiquitous in our everyday environments. These robots could
potentially extend life expectancy, and improve the health and quality of life of an aging …

This paper introduces the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and describes its evolution from a concept
proposed by Kevin Ashton in 1999 through its public emergence in 2005 in a United Nations …

This article examines the material culture of newsroom practices by focusing on the
dynamics of the processes through which news workers adopt new technologies. More …

This paper presented a literature review, a classification schema, and a research agenda for
the virtual community studies. Thirty-six academic papers on virtual communities, published …