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35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7
Big Island, Hawaii
January 07-January 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1435-9
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| M. Ginsburg, S. Weisband, "Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club," 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 7, pp. 171b, 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7, 2002. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994152, author = {M. Ginsburg and S. Weisband}, title = {Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club}, journal ={2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, volume = {7}, year = {2002}, isbn = {0-7695-1435-9}, pages = {171b}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2002.994152}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences TI - Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club SN - 0-7695-1435-9 SP EP A1 - M. Ginsburg, A1 - S. Weisband, PY - 2002 KW - Virtual Communities KW - Social Capital KW - Volunteerism VL - 7 JA - 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ER - | |||
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides broad classes of benefits to the participants of the network and suggest how volunteerism can be expected to increase the social capital of a network. We present survey data collected from 62 members of ICC to examine how different types of online volunteers are recruited and work in a successful virtual community. We show that ICC volunteers encourageand enable intenseinteraction for the benefit ofall the membership subgroups. That is, volunteers create social capital and serve as a key asset of the ICC business model; they strengthen both the ICC core business tenets and improve the software features it can offer to members, thereby providing the key to one virtual community's business success
Index Terms:
Virtual Communities, Social Capital, Volunteerism
Citation:
M. Ginsburg, S. Weisband, "Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club," hicss, vol. 7, pp.171b, 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7, 2002
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