Research Interests
Online groups and Virtual communities, particularly, what are the technological features and social processes that make groups experienced as “groups” and communities as “communities”
Research Projects
Current
- Assessment and understanding of a large professional virtual community
- validation of measures for entitavitiy (groupyness)
- experimental manipulation of technology features in online sports forum
- evaluation of current virtual community for graduate students
Past
- Sense of community in an online triathlon group
- Testing sense of community model across various types of online groups
- developing a model of trust in online groups
- health outcomes of participating in online groups