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This paper aims at showing how beneficial it is to use an analysis grid as a guide to evaluate the dynamics of an online community and, on the basis of this grid, to develop agent-based models to explore each of the dimensions characterizing online communities within this grid. Several models from different perspectives have been proposed to study the dynamics of online communities (socio-technical perspective, life stages perspective...). In this paper, we consider two dimensions to evaluate them: the informational one and the social one. Their constituents are derived from an empirical analysis and a review of the literature on online communities and reputation.
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Marquois-Ogez, E., Bothorel, C. (2006). Evaluating the Informational and Social Aspects of Participation in Online Communities. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915034_52
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