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Title:
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ONLINE COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND REGULATION PRINCIPLES: ASSESSING A TYPOLOGY |
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Author(s):
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Eleonore Ten Thij , Justin De Nooijer |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-7-9 |
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Editors:
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Dominik Flejter, Marek Kowalkiewicz and Jacek Wachowicz (Guest Editors) |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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V VI, I |
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Keywords:
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online community characteristics; regulation principles; typology; design |
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Type:
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Journal Paper |
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First Page:
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77 |
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Last Page:
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89 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this paper, we explore a framework for researching relationships between community characteristics
and regulation principles. These relationships might help to decide how community sites can support
regulation. Ultimately, our goal is to help community operators to deepen the appreciation of their
community sites by providing empirically validated insights which website features might support their
online community best.
We first determined which community characteristics and regulation principles should be considered,
based on a literature search. We then analyzed 31 Dutch and English, national and regional online
newspaper communities.
Analysis showed some interesting relationships between individual community characteristics and
regulation principles. The framework was able to discriminate between two types of community as well,
on the basis of our data, but could not relate these types to (sets of) different regulation principles. We
will therefore provide some suggestions how our framework might be improved. |
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