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The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The WELL. A second edition, with a new concluding chapter, was published in 2000 by MIT Press. The book's discussion ranges from Rheingold's adventures on The WELL, computer-mediated communication and social groups and ...
A virtual meeting held by a biodiversity community. A virtual community is a social work of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Some of the most pervasive virtual communities are online communities operating under social ...
Everett Rogers. Everett M. "Ev" Rogers (March 6, 1931 – October 21, 2004) was an American communication theorist and sociologist, who originated the diffusion of innovations theory and introduced the term early adopter. [citation needed] He was distinguished professor emeritus in the department of communication and journalism at the ...
A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team, distributed team, or remote team[1]) usually refers to a group of individuals who work together from different geographic locations and rely on communication technology [2] such as email, instant messaging, and video or voice conferencing services in order to collaborate. [3][4][5 ...
Virtual workplace. A virtual workplace is a work environment where employees can perform their duties remotely, using technology such as laptops, smartphones, and video conferencing tools. A virtual workplace is not located in any one physical space. It is usually a network of several workplaces technologically connected (via a private network ...
A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment [ 1 ] which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar [ 2 ] and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others. [ 3 ][ 4 ] These avatars can be textual, [ 5 ] graphical ...
Live, Virtual, & Constructive (LVC) Simulation is a broadly used taxonomy for classifying Modeling and Simulation (M&S). However, categorizing a simulation as a live, virtual, or constructive environment is problematic since there is no clear division among these categories. The degree of human participation in a simulation is infinitely ...
Virtual organization. A virtual organization is a temporary or permanent collection of geographically dispersed individuals, groups, organizational units, or entire organizations that depend on electronic linking in order to complete the production process ( working definition [1]). Virtual organizations do not represent a firm’s attribute ...