Account credibility inference based on news-sharing networks by Bao Tran Truong, Oliver Melbourne Allen, Filippo Menczer

“…Some of the proposed methods yield high accuracy, providing promising solutions to promote the dissemination of reliable information in online communities. Two kinds of homophily emerge from our results: accounts tend to have similar credibility if they reshare each other’s content or share content from similar sources. …”
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Platform capitalism: The intermediation and capitalisation of digital economic circulation by Paul Langley, Andrew Leyshon

“…A new form of digital economic circulation has emerged, wherein ideas, knowledge, labour and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but connected and interactive online communities. Such circulation is apparent across a number of digital economic ecologies, including social media, online marketplaces, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and other manifestations of the so-called ‘sharing economy’. …”
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Investigating the use of mobile communication technology in professional development: a connectivist approach by Patrick Mutanga, Abueng Molotsi

“…It is recommended that universities use WhatsApp Messenger for professional development through online communities of practice.…”
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The fast and the numerous - Combining machine and community intelligence for semantic annotation by Blohm, S, Krötzsch, M, Cimiano, P

“…The novelty of our model lies in the combination of two key ingredients: the effort that online communities are making to create content and the capability of machines to detect regular patterns in user annotation to suggest new annotations. …”

The structure of online social networks mirrors those in the offline world by Dunbar, R, Arnaboldi, V, Conti, M, Passarella, A

“…In addition, our analyses indicate that online communities have very similar structural characteristics to offline face-to-face networks.…”

Social Bots and Information Propagation in Social Networks: Simulating Cooperative and Competitive Interaction Dynamics by Yaming Zhang, Wenjie Song, Yaya H. Koura, Yanyuan Su

“…In this article, we propose using automated account (bots)-originating content to compete with and reduce the speed of propagating a harmful rumor on a given social media platform by modeling the underlying relationship between the circulating contents when they are related to the same topic and present relative interest for respective online communities using differential equations and dynamical systems. …”
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Species identification by conservation practitioners using online images: accuracy and agreement between experts by Gail E. Austen, Markus Bindemann, Richard A. Griffiths, David L. Roberts

“…Such visual records are easily shared, and are often uploaded to online communities when help is required to identify or validate species. …”
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Autistic Traits and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms Predict the Severity of Internet Gaming Disorder in an Italian Adult Population by Carmen Concerto, Alessandro Rodolico, Chiara Avanzato, Laura Fusar-Poli, Maria Salvina Signorelli, Fortunato Battaglia, Eugenio Aguglia

“…Through an online survey, we recruited 4260 individuals aged between 18 and 55 years old, who were members of online communities of video gamers. We collected demographic data and administered three questionnaires: the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGD9-SF), the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS). …”
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Discourse on Vaccination on Russian Social Media: Topics and Controversy by Konstantin Platonov, Kirill Svetlov, Viktoriia Saifulina

“…The raw dataset included 467888 news posts (published during 2021) from salient online communities and 538202 comments. Topic mining and modeling methods including PLSA and LDA were used to classify vaccination-related news posts in 6 groups, which differed in terms of language style, main focuses and discussed issues. …”
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Online brand community and consumer brand trust: Analysis from Czech millennials by John Amoah, Abdul Bashiru Jibril, Sulemana Bankuoru Egala, Solomon A. Keelson

“…However, the relationships between these online communities and brand trust are less explored in the literature, given the fact that consumers and users of information are core beneficiaries of these communities. …”
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Employee reviews on company independent sites and its impact on organizational attractiveness: role of information realism, person – environment fit and source credibility framewor... by Tavleen Kaur, Ritesh Dubey

“…Apart from company websites, job seekers are now using company independent websites, forums or online communities to gather a more truthful picture and information about the job and organizational attributes. …”
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Social Networks and Open Innovation: Business Academic Productivity by Eva M. Sánchez-Teba, Mercedes Rodríguez-Fernández, Ana I. Gaspar-González

“…Furthermore, in order to contribute to enhancing the role of universities in open innovation practices, it is essential to design and implement new tools such as online communities that stimulate interaction and facilitate network effects.…”
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Management of Digital Communications with Target Groups by Leading Russian Universities by E. V. Brodovskaya, A. Yu. Dombrovskaya, V. A. Lukushin

“…Based on the data obtained, we have developed recommendations for improving the digital management of universities, increasing the density of connections and the integration of users within the online communities of universities as one of the conditions for effective management of a university brand in the modern network space.…”
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The use and misuse of evolutionary psychology in online manosphere communities: The case of female mating strategies by Louis Bachaud, Sarah E. Johns

“…However, evolutionary hypotheses on female mating strategies are routinely invoked among the antifeminist online communities collectively known as ‘the manosphere’. …”
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Research on Users’ Exercise Behaviors of Online Exercise Community Based on Social Capital Theory by Jing Fan, Xingchen Guo, Xuan Liu, Xinyi Xue

“…The willingness of users to interact and create user-generated content in online communities reflects the vitality of the online exercise community and the positive impact it has on offline users’ health performance. …”
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Counterfactual Reasoning over Community Detection: A Case Study of the Public Science Day Community by Wenkang Jiang, Hongbo He, Lei Lin, Qirui Tang, Runqiang Wang

“…By integrating counterfactual reasoning theory into a community detection algorithm, we present a novel paradigm for eliminating influence bias in online communities. We consider the community of Public Science Day of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a case study to demonstrate the validity of the proposed paradigm. …”
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A Secure and Decentralized Authentication Mechanism Based on Web 3.0 and Ethereum Blockchain Technology by Adrian Petcu, Bogdan Pahontu, Madalin Frunzete, Dan Alexandru Stoichescu

“…The use cases for this technology include online marketplaces, social media platforms, and other online communities that require user authentication. The advantages of Web3 authentication include increased security and privacy for users and the ability for users to have more control over their data. …”
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Teaching and cognitive presences: The mediating effect of social presence in a developing world context by Ashley Teedzwi Mutezo, Suné Maré

“…By implication, academic institutions and teachers must provide a more collaborative and interactive online learning environment and promote productive online communities.…”
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Be a part of it: promoting WOM, eWOM, and content creation through customer identification by Jaime Romero, Daniel Ruiz-Equihua

“…Moreover, firms that own online communities must apply segmentation strategies based on identification and self-enhancement to encourage positive behaviors from customers. …”
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The Effectiveness of Face-to-Face versus Online Delivery of Continuing Professional Development for Science Teachers: A Systematic Review by Zhi Li, Norlizah Che Hassan, Habibah Ab. Jalil

“…Future research should focus on strategies to enhance participants’ communication engagement in online communities. Additionally, it is worth conducting further investigations of the potential relationships between psychosocial variables and the effectiveness of online CPD, along with the impact of digital skills on online CPD.…”
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