Citation

Flor NV. Int. J. Web Based Communities 2005; 1(2): 195-213.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006063

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The primary finding of this research is that an online-advice community is an emergent system resulting from the synthesis of three basic processes: schema formation, schema sharing, and schema gathering. I end by showing how knowledge of these processes allows the transformation of advice communities into higher-level information systems like autonomous businesses.


KEYWORDS: online communities; applied cognitive science; distributed cognition; programmable autonomous businesses; web-based communities; online advice; information systems; information activities; help-advice threads.

Language: en