期刊名称：International Journal of Computer, Information, and Systems Science, and Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1307-2331
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
摘要：Computer-mediated communication technologies
which provide for virtual communities have typically evolved in a
cross-dichotomous manner, such that technical constructs of the
technology have evolved independently from the social environment
of the community. The present paper analyses some limitations of
current implementations of computer-mediated communication
technology that are implied by such a dichotomy, and discusses their
inhibiting effects on possible developments of virtual communities.
A Socio-Technical Indicator Model is introduced that utilizes
integrated feedback to describe, simulate and operationalise
increasing representativeness within a variety of structurally and
parametrically diverse systems. In illustration, applications of the
model are briefly described for financial markets and for ecosystems.
A detailed application is then provided to resolve the
aforementioned technical limitations of moderation on the evolution
of virtual communities. The application parameterises virtual
communities to function as self-transforming social-technical
systems which are sensitive to emergent and shifting community
values as products of on-going communications within the collective.
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