The goal of the Virtual Communities and Collaboration track is to disseminate research and extend our knowledge and understanding of virtual communities and collaboration. Collaboration is a fundamental part of organizations and organizational partnerships. Following a continuing trend toward globalization, virtual communities and collaboration are an increasingly important part of organizations. Virtual communities are collective groups of individuals who utilize computer-mediated environments to interact and pursue mutual goals. They can be found in virtual worlds, social media and crowdsourcing sites, among others. Organizations and teams can use computer-mediated environments to improve their processes and outcomes, yet collaboration technologies do not foster value-creation by themselves. Researchers and practitioners need to address behavioral, social, cognitive, and technical issues. Research areas range from design issues in collaboration systems, sense of community and engagement in virtual communities, to impact of virtual communities and collaboration in domains as diverse as business, education, and government. This track aims to solicit contributions from a range of epistemological and methodological perspectives to extend our understanding of virtual communities and collaboration to enhance the theoretical foundation for research, share important empirical findings related to these venues, and provide guidance to practitioners.

Schedule
2020
Monday, August 10th
12:00 AM

A Support Vector Approach to Detecting Manipulated Reviews

Kelvin King-Kizito, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

12:00 AM

Analyzing Shopping Behavior of the Middle-aged users in Tiktok Live Streaming Platform

LIFU LI, University of Technology Sydney
Kyeong Kang, University of Technology Sydney

12:00 AM

Benefits, Risks and Social Factors in Consumer Acceptance of Social Commerce: A Meta-analytic Approach

Jian Mou, Pusan National University
Morad Benyocef, University of Ottawa
Jongki Kim, Pusan National University

12:00 AM

Collaborating with the Crowd for Software Requirements Engineering: A Literature Review

Pascal Vogel, University of Hamburg
Christian Grotherr, University of Hamburg

12:00 AM

Examining the Role of Semantic Similarity in Online Restaurant Review Evaluations

Lin Li, Kyung Hee Univesity
Gang Ren, Kookmin University
Taeho Hong, Pusan National University
Sung-Byung Yang, Kyung Hee Univesity

12:00 AM

Impact of Information Presentation Format on User Decision-making: A Format-stage Fit Perspective

Muhammad Jawad, Baruch College, City University of New York
Raquel Benbunan-Fich, Baruch College, City University of New York

12:00 AM

Network Positions and Engagement in Social Media: An Empirical Examination in the Context of Online Health Communities

Srikanth Parameswaran, State University of New York at Binghamton
Rajiv Kishore, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

12:00 AM

Organizations and Communities: A Symbiosis View

Hani Safadi, University of Georgia
Rick Watson, University of Georgia
Tanner Skousen, University of Georgia

12:00 AM

Sociotechnical Co-design with General Pediatricians: Ripple Effects through Collaboration in Action

Helena Vallo Hult, University West, School of Business, Economics and IT
Anna Sigríður Islind, School of Computer Science
Christian Master Östlund, University West, School of Business, Economics and IT
Daniel Holmgren, Skaraborg Hospital
Per Wekell, Department of Pediatrics, NU-Hospital Group,

12:00 AM

The Gray Side of Fake News: A Multiclass Approach to Detecting Fake News, Real News and Everything Else in Between

Kelvin King-Kizito, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

12:00 AM

The Impact of Linguistic Cues on Knowledge Adoption in Online Knowledge Communities: A Signaling Theory Perspective

Langtao Chen, Missouri University of Science and Technology

12:00 AM

The Role of Online Community in Provision of Public Goods

Yue Jiao, Umass Lowell
Brian Lee, University of Massachusetts Lowell

12:00 AM

The way I like it! Social Commerce from an Indonesian Customers’ Lens

Faiq A. Defiandry, Carnegie Mellon University
Savanid Vatanasakdakul, Carnegie Mellon University
Chadi Aoun, Carnegie Mellon University

12:00 AM

To Smile or Not? The Effect of Facial Expression on Service Demand in Sharing Economy Platforms

Chaoqun Deng, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY)
T. (Ravi) Ravichandran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

12:00 AM

Trust Building and Risk Mitigation via Smart Contracts on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Moritz Tobias Bruckner, University of Augsburg
Adeline Frenzel, University of Augsburg
Daniel Veit, University of Augsburg

12:00 AM

Welcome? Investigating the reception of new contributors to organizational-communal open source software projects

Kevin Lumbard, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Anna Buhman, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Gabrielle E. Wethor, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Matthew Hale, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Sean Goggins, University of Missouri
Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska at Omaha

12:00 AM

What is Yours is “Mine”! A Model to Examine Consumers’ Value Co-Creation in Accommodation Sharing

Harshali Sadhya, Louisiana State University
Rudy Hirschheim, Louisiana State University

12:00 AM

What the Crowd Sources: A Protocol for a Contribution-Centred Systematic Literature Review of Data Crowdsourcing Research

Ryan J. A. Murphy, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland

12:00 AM

When Do Likes Create Bias?

Hui Hao, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Traci J. Hess, University of Massachusetts Amherst

12:00 AM