A Proposed Social Mechanism for Community Membership: The Case of Online File Sharing Using Bittorrent.
Kenneth ShemroskeLeiser SilvaPublished in: AMCIS (2009)
Keyphrases
- file sharing
- peer to peer
- online communities
- peer to peer networks
- virtual communities
- unstructured peer to peer systems
- online learning
- online learning communities
- online social
- social networks
- social support
- photo sharing
- social awareness
- internet traffic
- open source software development
- collective intelligence
- social interaction
- social network sites
- social media
- knowledge sharing
- information sharing
- social networking
- low income
- social communities
- social learning
- learning community
- client server architecture
- reputation mechanisms
- instant messaging
- community members
- social capital
- social web
- small world
- social relationships
- online social networks
- distributed environment