Exploring Online Social Capital in an Online Community
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2004-07-08
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Lin, Fang-Ling
Pan, Wei-Li
Hsu, Hua-Shan
Chiou, Guey-Fa
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This research-in-progress (RIP) paper described the research plan of online social capital investigation through running an online educational community. Social capital rationale was used as the conceptual foundation to guide the research project. Two preliminary online surveys were executed to collect IT coordinators’ existing IT usage patterns and their favored issues about online discussion. An online community system was developed based on the rationale of social capital and the preliminary survey results. The research goal is to integrate several sustaining strategies with community development and exploring online social capital during the evolution.