Social Network Analysis and Online Learning Communities in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review by Shazia K. Jan, Panos Vlachopoulos, Mitch Parsell

“…The impetus for such a review originated from an increased interest by researchers in SNA techniques to investigate interactions and learning engagement in various types of online communities. However, the researchers often omit to ground their research and SNA methods in community based learning frameworks such as communities of inquiry (CoI) and communities of practice (CoP). …”
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Establishing a distributed system for the simple representation and integration of diverse scientific assertions by Samwald Matthias, Stenzhorn Holger

“…In this paper we present the aTag (‘associative tags’) convention, which aims to drastically lower the entry barriers to the biomedical Semantic Web. aTags are short snippets of HTML+RDFa with embedded RDF/OWL based on the Semantically Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) vocabulary and domain ontologies and taxonomies, such as the Open Biomedical Ontologies and DBpedia. …”

Using big data to understand the online ecology of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy by Shasha Teng, Nan Jiang, Kok Wei Khong

“…We suggest public health practitioners engage in social media and craft evidenced-based messages to online communities in a balanced and palatable way.…”
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3D printing in the commons: knowledge and the nature of digital and physical resources by Garmulewicz, A

“…</p> <p>To develop these contributions I employ theory on the design rules of technological architecture, and use insights from the study of peer production in online communities. Empirical data comes from a qualitative study of users of Fab Labs, community workshops for digital fabrication, as well as from a quantitative study of the online user forum for the Ultimaker 3D printer.…”

Assessing the structural correlates between friendship networks and conversational agency in Facebook groups by Polonski, V, Hogan, B

“…We contextualise our findings via Gibson's notion of "conversational agency", and point to future directions for designing and managing online communities.…”

A One Health Approach to Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wakiso District, Uganda by David Musoke, Freddy Eric Kitutu, Lawrence Mugisha, Saba Amir, Claire Brandish, Deborah Ikhile, Henry Kajumbula, Ismail Musoke Kizito, Grace Biyinzika Lubega, Filimin Niyongabo, Bee Yean Ng, Jean O’Driscoll, Kate Russell-Hobbs, Jody Winter, Linda Gibson

“…We further established two multidisciplinary online communities of practice (CoPs) for health professionals and students, with a current membership of 321 and 162, respectively. …”
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Metaverse as Future Promising Platform Business Model: Case Study on Fashion Value Chain by Saravanan Periyasami, Aravin Prince Periyasamy

“…These avatars may be utilized in virtual worlds, online games, and other types of online communities. The way advertising works in the metaverse is quite similar to how it operates in the real world. …”
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Customer Empowerment and Engagement Behaviours Influencing Value for FinTech Customers: An Empirical Study from India by Archana Nayak Kini, Savitha Basri

“…To create customer value, FinTech practitioners and e-marketers should foster online communities and identify and manage customers’ need for control and empowerment for a particular service or product under study thus guiding them in designing customized marketing strategies. …”
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SentiTAM: Sentiments centered integrated framework for mobile learning adaptability in higher education by Atika Qazi, Najmul Hasan, Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah, Glenn Hardaker, Samrat Kumar Dey, Khalid Haruna

“…Online communities provide facilities to share public opinions and or sentiments on a wide range of subjects, from routine topics to vital issues of critical interest. …”
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How Do Young Community and Citizen Science Volunteers Support Scientific Research on Biodiversity? The Case of iNaturalist by Maria Aristeidou, Christothea Herodotou, Heidi L. Ballard, Lila Higgins, Rebecca F. Johnson, Annie E. Miller, Alison N. Young, Lucy D. Robinson

“…Online community and citizen science (CCS) projects have broadened access to scientific research and enabled different forms of participation in biodiversity research; however, little is known about whether and how such opportunities are taken up by young people (aged 5–19). …”
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Factors prompting and deterring suicides on the roads by Hilary Norman, Lisa Marzano, Rachel Winter, Ioana Crivatu, Jay-Marie Mackenzie, Ian Marsh

“…We also carried out an online ethnography to explore interactions in different online communities relating to this method of suicide. …”
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Fuzzy similarity based hierarchical clustering for communities in twitter social networks by R. Suganthi, K. Prabha

“…In particular, social networking has resulted in user clusters pertaining to many communities at different levels. Studies of online communities are a growing area of research user preferences can be categorized including dangerous groups. …”
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Social Work and Digital Activism: Sorority, Intersectionality, Homophily and Polarisation in #MeToo by Joaquín Castillo de Mesa, Chaime Marcuello-Servós, Antonio López Peláez, Paula Méndez Domínguez

“…Furthermore, these online communities reflected real offline characteristics (geographical location, affinities, similarities). …”
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Volunteer vs. Professional Community Translation in Video Game Localization: The Case of the Steam Translation Server in Turkish by Semih SARIGÜL, Jonathan Maurice ROSS

“…The findings thus suggest that theories of community translation need to take more account of both common and distinguishing features of online communities and offer new categorizations for blended community structures.…”
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Marketing and social networks: a criterion for detecting opinion leaders by Arnaldo Mario Litterio, Esteban Alberto Nantes, Juan Manuel Larrosa, Liliana Julia Gómez

“…Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to use the practical application of tools provided by social network theory for the detection of potential influencers from the point of view of marketing within online communities. It proposes a method to detect significant actors based on centrality metrics. …”
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Recipe Components and Parents’ Infant and Young Child Feeding Concerns: A Mixed-Methods Study of Recipe Posts Shared in Thai Facebook Groups for Parents by Abhirat Supthanasup, Cathy Banwell, Matthew Kelly, Vasoontara Sbirakos Yiengprugsawan

“…Because of the potential influence on parental beliefs and perceptions, further studies are required to understand the impact of existing online communities on actual feeding practices.…”
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Facebook as a tool for discursive resistance: a case study by Dehghan, Ehsan, Mohamad Ali, Afida

“…In the last couple of years, Iranian women have formed online communities to resist such laws and voice their dissent. …”
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The hidden depths of suicidal discourse: Network analysis and natural language processing unmask uncensored expression by Damien Lekkas, Nicholas C Jacobson

“…The ubiquitous integration of technology with day-to-day life has presented an invaluable opportunity to leverage unprecedented amounts of data to study STB, yet the complex etiologies and consequences of censorship for research within mainstream online communities render an incomplete picture of STB manifestation. …”
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Building the Pesantren Reputation: Implementation of Inbound Marketing by Hasan Baharun, Adi Wibowo, Himmatur Rizal

“…Through social media, websites and other digital platforms, Islamic boarding schools can build active and positive online communities. With consistency in conveying Islamic boarding school messages and values, public perception will become better and more inclusive. …”
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Coordinated inauthentic behavior: An innovative manipulation tactic to amplify COVID-19 anti-vaccine communication outreach via social media by Monica Murero

“…The article shows that CIB acts in three domains: (i) structuring inauthentic online communities, (ii) exploiting social media technology, and (iii) deceiving algorithms to extend communication outreach to unaware social media users, a matter of concern for the general audience of CIB-illiterates. …”
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