Network analysis holds promise for community psychology given the field's aim to understand the interplay between individuals and their social contexts. Indeed, because network analysis focuses explicitly on patterns of relationships between actors, its theories and methods are inherently extra-individual in nature and particularly well suited to characterizing social contexts. But, to what ext...

Evidence suggests that people often waver to buy from online vendors because of uncertainty about vendor behavior or the risk of having wrong information about the products. Trust plays a central role in helping consumers overcome perceptions of risk. Moreover, thematic groups are gaining a lot of attention and high centrality in online community, as users share opinions and/or mutually collabo...

An exploratory study of students’ engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of students (pre-service teachers) and experts (experienced in-service schoolteachers and academics), is the study’s primary focus. Students’ interaction and knowledge discourse structures, arising from individual readings of academic paper...

The local community is a complex socio-economic system, and its ability to function for an indefinitely long period of time (viability) is not investigated sufficiently today. The purpose of the research was, using the cognitive mapping, propose to the local community management developing their own management strategies to ensure its viability. Considering the weakly structured subject area of...

Proliferation of network access in the age of the internet has enabled information and knowledge sharing to an extent that was beyond thought a few years ago. In this paper we discuss the impacts of two heavily intertwined trends that have emerged, especially during the past few years. On the one hand, an increasing number of business-to-customer relationships almost requires customers to be on...