Virtual Communities and Collaboration

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, especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic, 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, as well as create business values. Therefore, researchers and practitioners need to address behavioral, social, cognitive, and technical issues in such environments. 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.

Track Chairs:
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology, nahf@mst.edu
Gert-Jande Vreede, University of South Florida, gdevreede@usf.edu
Tom Meservy, Brigham Young University, tmeservy@byu.edu

Schedule
2021
Monday, August 9th
12:00 AM

Any Feedback is Welcome: Peer Feedback and User Behavior in Online Communities

Kai Zhu, McGill University
Warut Khern-am-nuai, McGill University
Yinan Yu, University of Memphis

12:00 AM

Attributes and Actions: A Signaling Examination on the Determinants of Crowdfunding Success

Mingyan Xu, Baruch College
Yuanfeng Cai, Baruch College, CUNY

12:00 AM

Changing Views: Pre-suasion in a Reddit Discussion Community

Derya Ipek Eroglu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Onur Seref, Virginia Tech
Michelle MH Seref, Virginia Tech

12:00 AM

Exploring the Influences on Information Sharing in Virtual Communication

Martin Hassell, Northern Arizona University

12:00 AM

Exploring the Use of Nodal Centrality in Measuring Online Message Diffusion

Wingyan Chung, Western Carolina University
Lydia Chung, University of Florida

12:00 AM

Fake News Detection on the Web: An LSTM-based Approach

Piyush Vyas, Dakota State University
Jun Liu, Dakota State University
Omar El-Gayar, Dakota State University

12:00 AM

Mechanisms for Designing Digital Platforms: Promoting Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness

Lisa Lohrenz, TU Braunschweig
Simon Michalke, Jacobs University, Department of Business and Economics
Susanne Robra-Bissantz, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Christoph Lattemann, Jacobs University, Department of Business and Economiocs

12:00 AM

Newsfeed Clutter as an Inhibitor of Sensemaking

Jana Gundlach, Weizenbaum Institute for the networked Society
Olga Abramova, University of Potsdam

12:00 AM

Online Health Communities for Prenatal and Perinatal Women: A Consumption Value Theory Perspective of Users

Dorcas Boateng, University of Professional Studies, Accra
Richard Boateng, Department of Operations and MIS, University of Ghana Business School
Eric Afful-Dadzie, University of Ghana Business School

12:00 AM

Social Media Aggression: An Assessment Based on the Contemporary Deterrence Theory

Caleb Boadi, University of Ghana
Emmanuel Awuni Kolog, University of Ghana Business School

12:00 AM

The Use of Tools Affordances to Support Communication and Collaboration during COVID-19 remote work

Maureen Tanner, University of Cape Town
Mageshen Naidoo, University of Cape Town

12:00 AM

Towards a Grounded Theory of Actor Conflicts in the Sharing Economy in a Developing Country

Obed Kwame Adzaku Penu, University of Ghana Business School (UGBS)
Richard Boateng, Department of Operations and MIS, University of Ghana Business School
Joseph Budu, PhD, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
Thomas Anning-Dorson, University of the Witwatersrand

12:00 AM

Value Creation in Business Ecosystems – A Design Theory for a Reference Model

Christian Betz, University of St. Gallen
Reinhard Jung, University of St. Gallen

12:00 AM

What Factors Influenced Online Social Interaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Catherine Dwyer, Pace University
Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Linda Plotnick, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sukeshini Grandhi, Eastern Connecticut State University

12:00 AM

What Makes A Helpful Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities? A Heuristic-Systematic Model

Langtao Chen, Missouri University of Science and Technology

12:00 AM

What You Do is What You Are: The Foundation of User Identity in Online Collective Action

Yusun Jung, Texas A&M University, Texarkana

12:00 AM