The influence of social presence on continual participation in online communities: The relational view based on social identity theory

Proceedings - 2011 International Joint Conference on Service Sciences, IJCSS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 110-115

  Wang, Kai ^a   Tai, Chi Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Continual participation; Sense of virtual community; Social identity theory; Social presence

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CONTINUAL PARTICIPATION; KEY FACTORS; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; NEW FORMS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RESEARCH MODELS; SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORIES; SOCIAL PRESENCE; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; VIEW-BASED; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 80052187251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCSS.2011.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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