From I to We: Group Formation and Linguistic Adaption in an Online Xenophobic Forum by Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Marie Gustafsson Sendén, Sverker Sikström

“…Much of identity formation processes nowadays takes place online, indicating that intergroup differentiation may be found in online communities. This paper focuses on identity formation processes in an open online xenophobic, anti-immigrant, discussion forum. …”
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« Devenir inverseur ». Trajectoire de participation d’une enseignante à un tweetchat animé par le collectif Inversons la classe ! by Sylvie Mas

“…The phenomenon of online communities and the interest of research for professional development in these spaces is not new. …”
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Modeling programming knowledge for mentoring at scale by Pai, Anvisha H., Guo, Philip J., Miller, Robert C.

“…In large programming classes, MOOCs or online communities, it is challenging to find peers and mentors to help with learning specific programming concepts. …”
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The moderating effect of virtual leadership behaviors towards knowledge sharing in online programming communities by Shahatha, Abdulrazak F., Ahmad, Rahayu

“…The finding implied that although online communities are informal in nature, the appropriate type of leadership can boost the members’ efficacy and outcome expectancy to participate in knowledge sharing. …”
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Legal interoperability: making Open Government Data compatible with businesses and communities by Federico Morando

“…"Legal interoperability" could be defined as the possibility of legally mixing data coming from different sources (including governmental data, data generated by online communities and data held by private parties). Legal interoperability is similar to technical interoperability, since it is a prerequisite for mixing data and create new knowledge or services. …”
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Exploring Open-Source 3D Printing as a Transformative Design Tool by Katrina McLaughlin

“…By engaging with online communities and Open-Source Technologies, I have de­vel­oped the skills to apply my specialist knowledge to this alternative technology to translate and interpret traditional textile and manipulation techniques. …”
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Modeling opinion polarization on social media: Application to Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy in Italy. by Jonathan Franceschi, Lorenzo Pareschi, Elena Bellodi, Marco Gavanelli, Marco Bresadola

“…We show through numerical simulations that the model is capable to describe correctly the formation of the bimodal opinion structure observed in the vaccine-hesitant dataset, which is witness of the known polarization effects that happen within closed online communities.…”
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Towards an Anti-Antiutopia by Phillip Crosby

“…The paper suggests that the solarpunk futures currently emerging in literature, art, and online communities offer architects, landscape architects, and urban designers powerful inspiration for the future of our increasingly urban world. …”
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Online Depression Communities: Does Gender Matter? by Galit Nimrod

“…Using strategies for promoting active participation among men may enhance the benefits they gain from the online communities.…”
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Social networking application development by Chee, Cheng Hui.

“…It focuses on building online communities of people who sharing of interests and activities amongst people. …”
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Free choice in the making: Vaccine-related activism as an alternative form of citizenship during the Covid-19 pandemic. by Barbara Morsello, Paolo Giardullo

“…We examined, through a digital ethnography on the main Italian free-vax online communities - Comilva, Corvelva and Movimento 3V – the public contestation of anti-Covid health policies by comparing their different styles of vaccine-related activism. …”
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How Does Online Brand Community Climate Influence Community Identification? The Mediation of Social Capital by Ning Zhang, Zhimin Zhou, Ge Zhan, Nan Zhou

“…Although online communities with a supportive climate encourage members to participate and exchange their information openly and freely, participants may perceive the community to be unsafe without proper control. …”
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Digitalised Responses: Understanding the Digital Literary Spaces in the Light of Keshava Guha’s Accidental Magic by Sapphire Mahmood Ahmed, K. Rizwana Sultana

“…The paper concludes that online communities have introduced a new means of storytelling, which is now a two-way process, unlike what was the case in the pre-internet era. …”
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Impact of Social Support and Reciprocity on Consumer Well-Being in Virtual Medical Communities by Jyh-Jeng Wu PhD, Che-Hui Lien PhD, Tien Wang PhD, Tzu-Wei Lin MBA

“…This study contributes to the literature on realizing members’ social behaviors specifically in virtual medical cosmetics communities and provides insights for the management of online communities.…”
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Impolite Communication Practices as a Community-Building Tool in Sports News Comments by Valery A. Shulginov, Kirill A. Alyansky

“…Conflict discourse studies provide a valuable insight into linguistic and sociocultural ideologies of online communities. They also may offer effective approaches to linguistic detoxification. …”
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Impacts of physician promotion on the online healthcare community: Using a difference-in-difference approach by Yuan-Teng Hsu, Ya-Ling Chiu, Jying-Nan Wang, Hung-Chun Liu

“…These findings extend prior research on reputation in online communities and have crucial implications for theory and practice.…”
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Virtual tree, real impact: how simulated worlds associate with the perception of limited resources by Manh-Toan Ho, Thanh-Huyen T. Nguyen, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Viet-Phuong La, Quan-Hoang Vuong

“…The article used the Bayesian multilevel model to analyze 640 survey responses of ACNH game players from various online communities. The correlations between the perception of limited resources and virtual planting and exploiting behaviors with the varying effect among ethnicities were explored. …”
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Language, Twitter and academic conferences by Garcia Gavilanes, R, Gomez, D, Parra, D, Trattner, C, Kaltenbrunner, A, Graells-Garrido, E

“…These results suggest a relation between the number of languages a user speaks and their interaction dynamics in online communities.…”

Dominant communities and dominant designs: Community-based innovation in the context of the technology life cycle by Seidel, VP, Langner, B, Sims, J

“…Online community–based innovation—whether through self-organized communities, firm–community collaborations, or innovation contests and crowdsourcing—is increasingly used as a source of technological advances, yet studies in this domain are often detached from considering the dynamics of technological evolution itself. …”

The Role of Diverse Strategies in Sustainable Knowledge Production. by Lingfei Wu, Jacopo A Baggio, Marco A Janssen

“…Online communities are becoming increasingly important as platforms for large-scale human cooperation. …”
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