Motivations in virtual health communities and their relationship to community, connectedness and stress.
Jennifer L. WelbourneAnita L. BlanchardMarla B. WadsworthPublished in: Comput. Hum. Behav. (2013)
Keyphrases
- knowledge communities
- community members
- social capital
- community structure
- learning community
- community detection
- web communities
- virtual communities
- online communities
- related concepts
- knowledge sharing
- virtual world
- information networks
- virtual environment
- social web
- social scientists
- social communities
- social networks
- virtual reality
- complex networks
- health care
- augmented reality
- social network analysis
- neural network
- community formation
- independent living
- community discovery
- connected components
- share information
- real world networks
- network analysis
- small world
- content sharing
- social ties
- professional learning
- information systems