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A Community Membership Life Cycle Model

by: Andreas C. Sonnenbichler

(2010) .

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URL:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4271

Web 2.0 is transforming the internet: Information consumers become information producers and consumers at the same time. In virtual places like Facebook, Youtube, discussion boards and weblogs diversificated topics, groups and issues are propagated and discussed. Today an internet user is a member of lots of communities at different virtual places. "Real life" group membership and group behavior has been analyzed in science intensively in the last decades. Most interestingly, to our knowledge, user roles and behavior have not been adapted to the modern internet. In this work, we give a short overview of traditional community roles. We adapt those models and apply them to virtual online communities. We suggest a community membership life cycle model describing roles a user can take during his membership in a community. Our model is systematic and generic; it can be adapted to concrete communities in the web. The knowledge of a community's life cycle allows influencing the group structure: Stage transitions can be supported or harmed, e.g. to strengthen the binding of a user to a site and keep communities alive.

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A Community Membership Life Cycle Model

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@misc{Sonnenbichler2010,
  abstract = {  Web 2.0 is transforming the internet: Information consumers become
information producers and consumers at the same time. In virtual places like
Facebook, Youtube, discussion boards and weblogs diversificated topics, groups
and issues are propagated and discussed. Today an internet user is a member of
lots of communities at different virtual places. &quot;Real life&quot; group membership
and group behavior has been analyzed in science intensively in the last
decades. Most interestingly, to our knowledge, user roles and behavior have not
been adapted to the modern internet. In this work, we give a short overview of
traditional community roles. We adapt those models and apply them to virtual
online communities. We suggest a community membership life cycle model
describing roles a user can take during his membership in a community. Our
model is systematic and generic; it can be adapted to concrete communities in
the web. The knowledge of a community's life cycle allows influencing the group
structure: Stage transitions can be supported or harmed, e.g. to strengthen the
binding of a user to a site and keep communities alive.
},
  added-at = {2010-07-21T16:27:57.000+0200},
  author = {Sonnenbichler, Andreas C.},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26b808f2988784442ca0f0ab2560f851b/hotho},
  description = {A Community Membership Life Cycle Model},
  interhash = {c244c29b978e6aa0b032a83597bd9744},
  intrahash = {6b808f2988784442ca0f0ab2560f851b},
  keywords = {community membership model sent:folke toread},
  note = {cite arxiv:1006.4271
Comment: Presented at the International Network For Social Network Analysis
  (INSNA): Sunbelt Conference 2009, San Diego, California, USA. 9 pages, 6
  figures},
  timestamp = {2010-07-21T16:27:57.000+0200},
  title = {A Community Membership Life Cycle Model},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4271},
  year = 2010
}

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%0 Generic
%1 Sonnenbichler2010
%A Sonnenbichler, Andreas C.
%D 2010
%K 
%T A Community Membership Life Cycle Model
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4271
%X   Web 2.0 is transforming the internet: Information consumers become
information producers and consumers at the same time. In virtual places like
Facebook, Youtube, discussion boards and weblogs diversificated topics, groups
and issues are propagated and discussed. Today an internet user is a member of
lots of communities at different virtual places. &quot;Real life&quot; group membership
and group behavior has been analyzed in science intensively in the last
decades. Most interestingly, to our knowledge, user roles and behavior have not
been adapted to the modern internet. In this work, we give a short overview of
traditional community roles. We adapt those models and apply them to virtual
online communities. We suggest a community membership life cycle model
describing roles a user can take during his membership in a community. Our
model is systematic and generic; it can be adapted to concrete communities in
the web. The knowledge of a community's life cycle allows influencing the group
structure: Stage transitions can be supported or harmed, e.g. to strengthen the
binding of a user to a site and keep communities alive.

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A Community Membership Life Cycle Model

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