Cover -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Table of Contents -- Detailed Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- New Media, Communities, and Social Practice: An Introductory Tutorial -- Conditions and Key Success Factors for the Management of Communities of Practice -- The Search for 8216;Hidden8217; Virtual Communities of Practice: Some Preliminary Premises -- The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry for CoP: The Virtual Enterprise8217;s Emergent Knowledge Model -- The Role of Participatory Design in Constructing the Virtual Knowledge Commons -- The 8216;Social Experience Factory8217; and the Fabrics of Collaboration in Virtual Communities of Practice -- Social TV: Building Virtual Communities to Enhance the Digital Interactive Television Viewing Experience -- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Social Visualization Within Virtual Communities -- GRIDS in Community Settings -- Socializing in an Online Gaming Community: Social Interaction in World of Warcraft -- Social Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services -- Virtual Community Practice Toolkits Using 3D Imaging Technologies -- Using Activity Theory to Assess the Effectiveness of an Online Learning Community: A Case Study in Remote Collaboration Using a 3D Virtual Environment -- Interaction, Imagination and Community Building at the Math Forum -- Designing Practice-Oriented Interactive Vocabularies for Workflow-Based Virtual CoP -- Developing User Interfaces for Community-Oriented Workflow Information Systems -- Virtual Communities in Health and Social Care -- Research Communities in Context: Trust, Independence, and Technology in Professional Communities -- Enabling Virtual Music Performance Communities -- Sustainable E-Learning Communities -- Cross-Organization Virtual CoPs in E-Tourism: Assembling Information-Based Products -- Social Interactive Media and Virtual Community Practices: Retrospective and an R & D Agenda -- Compilation of References -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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"This book makes a step toward an improved understanding of existing literature, prevalent practice and future trends related to community thinking, virtual practices and their intertwining with new technologies and social media"--Provided by publisher.
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Virtual community practices and social interactive media.