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Social And Commercial Sustainability Of Regional Web-Based Communities, A. Connery, Helen M. Hasan
Social And Commercial Sustainability Of Regional Web-Based Communities, A. Connery, Helen M. Hasan
Helen Hasan
New information and communications technologies have disrupted many traditional forms of community but enabled the emergence of new ones. This paper examines pertinent characteristics of communities, before describing three case studies of commercially operated web-based communities. The research demonstrates the social and commercial value of the concept of community.