Web-Based Communities and Social Media
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Techno-Social Smart Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2020) | Viewed by 4213
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Communities are sets of persons who share a certain action, place, practice, or circumstance. Online communities are distinguished from social media memberships; communities show basically an altruistic relationship among their members. The reason is that a community shares collective assets and needs—joining at a specific location regularly, fostering a common charity, striving for a common ideology, and so on. Social media mainly relies on exposing successes and identity; not necessarily giving up personal privileges. This Special Issue initiative invites you to bring forward your special interest into (1) the emergence, (2) the sustenance, and (3) the decline of online communities. At the moment, the new features in web-based systems are a special occasion; virtual, vicarious, and game-like fictitiousness are the most dominant. Feel welcome to send the title and abstract of your article for the Special Issue, “Web-Based Communities and Social Media” for the Journal of Future Internet to Mr. Harry Fu, managing editor of Future Internet.
Email: [email protected] (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet). You may get inspired by the articles in the International Journal of Web-Based Communities; https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijwbc.
Wishing you inspirational writing.
Dr. Piet Kommers
Guest Editor
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