The distribution of processes underlying a teen-advice online community: YesNoMaybe.com Online publication date: Sun, 30-Jan-2005
by Nick V. Flor
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2005
Abstract: The primary finding of this research is that an online-advice community is an emergent system resulting from the synthesis of three basic processes: schema formation, schema sharing, and schema gathering. I end by showing how knowledge of these processes allows the transformation of advice communities into higher-level information systems like autonomous businesses.
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