Supporting social interaction in virtual communities: Role of social presence

Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4449-4457

  Shen, Kathy Ning ^a   Khalifa, Mohamed ^a   Yu, Angela Yan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Participation; Social identity; Social presence; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION MEDIA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL ACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL PRESENCE; SOCIAL SETTINGS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84870330846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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