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Technology and Community Behavior in Online Environments

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Communities and Technologies 2007

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The literature on virtual or online communities contains two largely disjoint bodies of scholarship. One, which we call the “communities” literature, is concerned primarily with the social and psychological processes observable within groups of people that interact regularly in online environments. The other, concerned primarily with the effects of technological environments on individual and group behavior, we call the “environments” literature.

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  1. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

    Anita L. Blanchard

  2. Bentley College, USA

    M. Lynne Markus

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  1. Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Charles Steinfield

  2. Department of Accounting and Information Systems The Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Brian T. Pentland

  3. School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Mark Ackerman

  4. Department of Speech Communication, Department of Psychology, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Noshir Contractor

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Blanchard, A.L., Markus, M.L. (2007). Technology and Community Behavior in Online Environments. In: Steinfield, C., Pentland, B.T., Ackerman, M., Contractor, N. (eds) Communities and Technologies 2007. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_17

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