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International
Journal of
Web
Based
Communities
Volume 5, No. 4, 2009


Editor-in-Chief Dr. M.A. Dorgham

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ISSN (Print): 1477-8394
ISSN (Online): 1741-8216

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The International Journal of Web Based
Communities (IJWBC) is a peer-reviewed scientific
journal. It offers state of the art to practitioners such
as communication managers, officers of public
information services, web masters and of course those
who are responsible for online communities. Its
mission is to publish and integrate scientific results
and act as a catalyst to the rapidly developing culture
of web communities.
It is increasingly important for our culture to bring
people together and to promote dynamics in
professional organisations, mutual understanding,
learning and harmony. Creating ‘virtual communities’
is one major way to do this. The IJWBC will publish
scientifically proven methods on how to organise and
moderate WWW-based communities. These
communities do not limit participants to particular
locations – the international and multicultural
dimension is a most challenging one. Good WWW
communities undergo a continuous evolution and
adapt to the changing world. The nature of these
communities can be corporate, scientific, social or
educational.
IJWBC publishes original papers, case studies,
technical reports, conference reports, educational
appeals, book reviews, commentaries and news items.
Contributions may be by submission or invitation,
and suggestions for special issues and publications
are welcome.
Subject coverage
The coverage of IJWBC includes, but is not limited to
the following subjects:
The history, architecture and future of virtual
communities
• From mobility to connectivity
• Identity and augmented ideologies
• Visionary web architectures, implanted computers
• Network revolutions, post-colonial and
post-modern societies
• Escaping from reality, virtual reality and
multi-user games
• Towards alternative ways of presence
Group processes and self-organisation
• Tele-democracy, morality, netiquette
• Social networks, tribal- and open communities,
peace education
• Computer mediated-, hyper- and narrative
communication, woven stories
• MUDs, MOOs and avatars
• Hosting web-based communities
• Nationalities, ethnicities and gender effects
Cyborgs, teleworking, telemedicine, art games and
learning communities
• Fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship
• Distributed cognition, the electronic cortex and
constructivism
• Community directories
• Mechanic world, organic computer
• Agents and the vectorised self
• Beyond metaphors: imagining and representation
• Communising as a marketing approach
Expanding markets through virtual communities
• The WWW as digital marketplace
• The enterprise as a learning community
• Learning as a road map for business
• Universities as online communities
• Business-to-business communication in
profit- and non-profit sectors
Virtual communities for people with special needs
• Access to public spaces
• Accessibility and long-term disabilities
• Virtual communities in healthcare
Submission of papers
Papers, case studies, etc. in the areas covered by
IJWBC are invited for submission. Authors may wish
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