Special issue published: "Channeling Sense of Community"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 13(1) 2017

• Questionnaires in the design and evaluation of community-oriented technologies
• A descriptive model of sense of community on Juba Arabic Facebook
• Social media influence on purchase intentions: instrument validation
• Crowdfunding: exploring the factors associated with the users' intention to finance a project online
• Surveying web platforms serving communities of practice: findings and opportunities
• What is an online community? A new definition based around commitment, connection, reciprocity, interaction, agency, and consequences
• A survey on topological properties, network models and analytical measures in detecting influential nodes in online social networks