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The influence of cultural diversity on the effectiveness of Virtual Software Development TeamsLoskutova, Tetyana 31 July 2014 (has links)
A Virtual Software Development Team (VSDT) is a group team of Information Technology (IT) professionals working together to produce a software product and collaborating remotely with the use of information communication technology. In a VSDT, face-to-face contact is seldom required in order for these teams to fulfil their tasks. VSDTs in the software development business offer advantages compared to co-located teams which include the availability of a global talent pool, lower costs and a global presence. However, many aspects of managing these teams are still undiscovered and under-researched. Among them is the influence of cultural diversity on the work, productivity and sustainability of a VSDT.
The purpose of this research was to define the main factors of the influence of cultural diversity on the effectiveness of a VSDT. The research was undertaken from an interpretive perspective. In agreement with this paradigm, the effectiveness factors were limited to the internal effectiveness of a team as perceived by its members. In order to define the factors of cultural diversity, existing theories of cultural diversity in a co-located workplace were used. I have conducted interviews with software developers, support professionals and their managers to probe the relevance of the existing theories in a virtual software development environment and to find other possible factors.
In this research, a specific ’internet nerd’ culture was discovered which exists among the members of the virtual (internet) community. The members of this culture comfortably accept virtual work and share a lot of common context. The findings show the importance of frequent communication, emotional sharing and occasional face-to-face contact in bonding the team, building trust and understanding. From the team management perspective, there is evidence that agile methodologies can be used successfully in the virtual environment.
The results of this research are beneficial for businesses looking to implement VSDTs, and can be used as a basis for the development of a theory of cultural diversity in a virtual environment.
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The influence of laptop brand awareness and internet community to purchase decision.Hsiao, Yu-Chung 25 June 2008 (has links)
ABSTRACT
Users¡¦ opinions and needs of the underlying products and services are allowed to gather at the Internet communities. Thus, Internet communities play information sharing roles in modern society. This thesis serves laptop computers as the object being studied and asks consumers¡¦ opinions about Internet communities and their purchase behaviors. In addition, brand awareness and risk of awareness played major roles in consumers¡¦ purchase decisions. As a consequence, this research took the three dimensions into consideration and examined the relations between the dimensions and consumers¡¦ purchase decisions for the sake of providing suggestions to laptop firms.
The questionnaire answerers are generally students whose age between 20 and 30. The outcomes show that the Internet group bears the greatest loading while the other two dimensions reported significant results as well. Gender, on the other hand, showed no significant differences in dimensions except the male value brand publicity more. Thus, this study gave suggestions to firms based on the results.
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The Key Success Factors of Attracting User to Decision on Virtual Community WebsitesHsuan, Yuan-ling 23 June 2011 (has links)
This study aims to probe into the key to success of Internet user¡¦s usage of virtual community websites. The craze of Internet community has swept the market since 2009 as it innovates by combining functional application programs and becomes very popular. With the development of Internet mobility and mobile technology service, the concept of multiple devices and mobility sharing rises, showing Internet community¡¦s ability to integrate different websites.
By literature review, the content of evaluation is prepared in order to list six major factors of success and the subordinate 37 items of evaluation are also found.
¡@¡@By Analytic Hierarchy Process, the first-stage questionnaire takes domestic users of Internet community as subject and the first half subordinate items are selected. In the second stage, six professionals in relevant fields and three severely-addicted Internet community users are interviewed. The interview is analyzed by matrix to decide the sequence of importance of major content of evaluation.
¡@¡@The research result shows that the most important key to the success of using virtual community websites is private information confidential system. With the progress of technology service, there should be complete protection offered by the community website for the purpose of providing uses a safe Internet environment. Then, innovative function and cross-website system can bring the website more attention. When the user interface is easy to learn, the website would be more practical. With users¡¦ work published on the website and interactive activities held by members, the user¡¦s loyalty and stickiness would also increase. Furthermore, a vivid image of the website and the ability to create talking topics are factors influencing Internet users.
¡@¡@The result may work as reference for domestic social network users and be adopted by the operator for establishment or marketing as feedback with a view to satisfying Internet user¡¦s need and expectation.
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Welcome to facebook changing the boundaries of identity, community and disclosure /Henderson, Janie D.. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-61).
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Viešojo administravimo institucijų interneto portalų komoderavimo modeliai / Comoderation models of the internet portals of public administration institutionsBeinoras, Martynas 21 December 2006 (has links)
Operative feedback between authors of publications and readers as well as between readers
themselves determines considerable growth of portals with commenting functions.
Unfortunately, the advantages of commenting are not used in the portals of public institutions.
Therefore, this paper surveys internet commenting influence in the e-democracy development,
involving the communities into decision making processes. The paper investigates, if the
electronic discussions can support realization of principles of publicity, society interests
importance and community involvement into the public management, mainly highlighted in
theory of public administration and new public management.
The main problem, why commenting functions are not being deployed in the portals of
institutions, is inefficiency of commenting process regulation. So far used methods of comments
regulation – simple moderation and automoderation – are inefficient (slow, subjective) when
there are huge amount of users, consequently, these methods do not fit to the portals of public
institutions. This paper surveys new method of commenting regulation – comoderation – which
is based on user self-regulation and comment rating, consequently, more efficient. So, adopting
of comoderation in the portals could provide a powerful tool for fast and purposeful changing of
ideas between officials and citizens.
The investigation of commenting and comment rating needs in the portals of institutions is
performed due to purpose to... [to full text]
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Taking Up Space: Community Formation Among Non-Urban LGBTQ YouthBishop, Madison 17 June 2015 (has links)
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"Where Everyone Waddles Like Me": An examination of the autistic community on Tumblr.comKirkconnell, Andrew January 2019 (has links)
I hope this can be used for a greater good than pure study. / This study used a novel combination of interview methodologies, made possible through the nature of instant messaging, and ethnographic methods in order to determine the value of the autistic community on Tumblr.com to its members. Ethnographic study yielded insights about the dialectic quality of any community on Tumblr, autistic community included, as well as the sense of autonomy users have on the site that is different if not greater than what they may practice in the physical world. Interview data suggest a neutral to positive view of the community and its culture overall, though further research with a greater sample of participants is required in order to confirm these findings. Information can be shared quickly between members, and this information provides greater insight into a given user’s autism, be it diagnosed or otherwise, or insight into navigating the neurotypical world. Autism positivity and neurodiversity advocacy is common among participants and the blogs they subscribe to, popularising the idea thereof in the mainstream while validating the identity of autistic people online and offline. This ethos makes its way into more casual site discussions, with memes and other entertainment being shaped by these experiences. The autistic community on Tumblr is an excellent example of a modern biosocial community online, and serves as Hacking’s engine of normalisation both on the site outside of the autistic community and in the physical world through real life events and adoption of site terminology and discourse. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / Using a purpose-built blog to learn about site culture and a series of online interviews to discover participant experiences, this study explores the culture of the autistic community on Tumblr and its impact on its members. The autistic community on Tumblr is a place that its members have more freedom to act and express themselves (through art, videos, shared stories etc.) than in the physical world. Through being a way to vent difficult experiences, get information, and enjoy site content made by and for them (in addition to broader appeal media), site users report a neutral to positive effect on their overall quality of life because of the site. Further research is required to confirm any of the patterns in the work.
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