Maintaining the Connections that Sustain Community

Community Management That Works: How to Build and Sustain a Thriving Online Health Community

Health care professionals, patients, caregivers, family, friends, and other supporters are increasingly joining online health communities to share information and find support. But social Web (Web 2.0) technology alone does not create a successful online community. Building and sustaining a successful community requires an enabler and strategic community management. Community management is more...

Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter

The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) continues to use social media as an essential element of its campaign to motivate support. On Twitter, ISIS' unique ability to leverage unaffiliated sympathizers that simply retweet propaganda has been identified as a primary mechanism in their success in motivating both recruitment and "lone wolf" attacks. The present work explores a large communit...

Forging Commitments That Sustain Cooperation

Syncytium biogenesis: It's all about maintaining good connections

At the end of mitosis, cells typically complete their division with cytokinesis. In certain tissues however, incomplete cytokinesis can give rise to cells that remain connected by intercellular bridges, thus forming a syncytium. Examples include the germline of many species, from fruitfly to humans, yet the mechanisms regulating syncytial formation and maintenance is unclear, and the biological...

A Community of Agents Maintaining Link

In this paper we present an agent architecture to maintain link integrity in the WorldWide Web. It consists of a community of agents collaborating to provide services to users, authors and administrators. In summary, agents maintain link integrity when documents are updated, moved, or when WWW sites are reorganised. They also provide authors and administrators with usage information such as doc...