Special issue published: "Web-Based Communities and their Supportive Role"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 10(4) 2014

• The potential of online academic communities for teaching staff: findings from a pilot study of the SocialLearn platform
• The social web of things: enabling the interaction of people and things on social networks
• Development of a support group using a virtual space for cancer patients
• Risks and opportunities of integrating social networking sites in the Australian and Portuguese workplace/communities: an exploratory study
• The key is not to forget to be awesome: identifying narratives in an online community
• A research methodology for studying distributed communities of practice