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International Literature Review of Virtual Community:Based on the Analysis High Cited Documents from SSCI and A&HCI
Received date: 2015-08-14
Revised date: 2015-09-04
Online published: 2015-09-20
[Purpose/significance] Virtual community study is an important research subject in new media study, which combines communication study, sociology and management science. Through literature review on virtual community study, this paper traces the development path of international study on this subject and focuses on in-depth analysis of three important topics, to make enlightenment for Chinses study.[Method/process] Based on databases of SSCI and A&CI, this paper analyses and summarizes the most influential study on virtual community.[Result/conclusion] Virtual community study has transferred from broad sphere study of social discourses to empirical study on specific professional virtual communities. Through literature review of three relevant topics of concepts and characters of virtual community, knowledge sharing in virtual community, and virtual community of medical and health issues, this study points out that, future research would pay more attention to interactions between the Internet and human beings and further contribute on collective innovation creation.
Meng Di . International Literature Review of Virtual Community:Based on the Analysis High Cited Documents from SSCI and A&HCI[J]. Library and Information Service, 2015 , 59(18) : 127 -133 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2015.18.019
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