The aim of this thesis is to explore the different types of user motivation to participate in online art communities and confront them with the possibilities these communities offer. The first chapter is devoted to the issue of motivation in terms of psychology, basic concepts and their relation to the researched topic. The second chapter focuses on the basic concepts of virtual communities. These topics serve as the theoretical basis for the third chapter that focuses on online art community itself: definition of this term, recognition of the basic types of these communities, types of users and their motivation to enter and participate. The chapter concludes with the following types of motivation being confronted with the possibilities online art communities offer to their users. The last chapter deals with empirical research aimed at finding dominant forms of motivation, comparing different types of users, exploring their relationship with other users as well as habits in sharing their own creations. Based on results the partial recommendations to the creators of the community websites on which these communities grow are formulated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:198244 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Kubíková, Alena |
| Contributors | Sigmund, Tomáš, Čermák, Radim |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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