Online communities sustainability: some economic issues

Online communities sustainability: some economic issues

There is a growing attention being placed on community networking and community informatics, due to the role both can play in building the Information Society. Hence, the issue of the sustainability of online communities becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worthwhile. I...

Some Value Propositions of Online Communities

Online communities are an integral part of the Internet. However, it is not entirely clear exactly what the value propositions of online communities are, and how firms should leverage them. This paper is an attempt to describe some of the value propositions of online communities and to suggest control structures that firms should employ to maximize community value. The general trend that emerge...

Explaining theComponents of Sustainability in Urban Communities

Community is the main pillar of the urban body; and balance of social life in cities depends on preserving communities. During the twentieth century, the idea of residential-centered community has been offered in many modern theories and has been widely accepted for solving urban various problems such as management, social and human relations, health and welfare issues and aspects of meaning an...

Sustainability of Communities

Emotional expression is the lifeblood of any organisation or community. This paper reviews recent approaches, research issues and trends in emotion research and then applies insights from this body of research to the area of community sustainability. A particular focus is the gendered nature of emotion and how emotion facilitates connections within communities. Utilising examples from the autho...

Debt and Deficits: Some Measurement, Economic and Political Issues