Pratiques d’amateurs en animation de communautés sur Facebook dans le domaine de la vitiviniculture by Marie-Caroline Heïd, Catherine De Lavergne

“…Activities related to the animation of online community links for professional purposes are diffusing into the sphere of small family businesses. …”
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How to create a mindful community of practice: exploring the social functions of group-based mindfulness practices facilitated via Zoom during COVID-19 by Jutta M. Tobias Mortlock, Hotri Himasri Alapati, Trudi Edginton

“…The study’s purpose was to better understand the social functions of regularly practicing mindfulness in this online community of practice. Analyses from semi-structured interviews reveal how shared mindfulness practice may foster several pillars of connection and interbeing in this community of practice. …”
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The informational “cosplay journey” of Star Wars cosplayers in the context of a Facebook group by Emily Vardell, Paul Thomas, Ting Wang

“…Building on this current of thought, the present study explores information practices in the context of serious leisure, looking specifically at the Rey Cosplay Community Facebook group, an online community of Star Wars cosplayers. The work discusses how these fans seek, organize, and share relevant information during the process of making costumes. …”
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Gender Dynamics in Online Religious Leadership in Nigeria: Investigating How Digital Platforms Shape Communication, Authority, and Influence by Bukola L. Oloba, Anne M. Blankenship

“…Through in-depth interviews with twenty religious leaders across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones and comment analysis from online community interactions, the study identified eight main themes that reveal the complex interactions between gender, authority, and influence in both digital and offline contexts. …”
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Improving Knowledge about Risks Related to Alpine Sports: A Collaborative Laboratory on Accidentology by Maud Vanpoulle, Bastien Soulé, Eric Boutroy, Brice Lefèvre

“…To this end, since 2015, the Laboratory of Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport (L-VIS) has been participating in collaborative action research in France involving parties from several spheres: the Petzl Foundation (Petzl is a French climbing and caving equipment company), the online community Camptocamp (aimed at those who practice mountain sports), stakeholders from the public sector (mountain rescue services and the National Observatory of Mountain Safety, SNOSM) and the non-profit sector (sports federations), and professionals (guide organizations). …”
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Renouveler les connaissances sur les risques liés aux sports de montagne : l’exemple d’un laboratoire collaboratif d’accidentologie by Maud Vanpoulle, Bastien Soulé, Eric Boutroy, Brice Lefèvre

“…To this end, since 2015, the Laboratory of Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport (L-ViS) has been participating in collaborative action research in France involving parties from several spheres: the Petzl Foundation (Petzl is a French climbing and caving equipment company), the online community Camptocamp (aimed at those who practice mountain sports), stakeholders from the public sector (mountain rescue services and the National Observatory of Mountain Safety, SNOSM) and the non-profit sector (sports federations), and professionals (guide organizations). …”
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ViT-DualAtt: An efficient pornographic image classification method based on Vision Transformer with dual attention by Zengyu Cai, Liusen Xu, Jianwei Zhang, Yuan Feng, Liang Zhu, Fangmei Liu

“…Therefore, accurately classifying and filtering pornographic images is crucial to maintaining the safety of the online community. In this paper, we propose a novel pornographic image classification model named ViT-DualAtt. …”
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Novel Node Centrality-Based Efficient Empirical Robustness Assessment for Directed Network by Xiaolong Deng, Hao Ding, Yong Chen, Cai Chen, Tiejun Lv

“…In recent years, while extensive researches on various networks properties have been proposed and accomplished, little has been proposed and done on network robustness and node vulnerability assessment under cascades in directed large-scale online community networks. In essential, an online directed social network is a group-centered and information spread-dominated online platform which is very different from the traditional undirected social network. …”
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Factors associated with fear of hypoglycaemia among the T1D Exchange Glu population in a cross-sectional online survey by Jingwen Liu, Jeoffrey Bispham, Ludi Fan, Jiat-Ling Poon, Allyson Hughes, Alicia Mcauliffe-Fogarty, Oralee Varnado, Beth Mitchell

“…This study investigated factors associated with behavioural and emotional aspects of FoH among adults living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) mellitus.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Online survey hosted on T1D Exchange Glu, an online community for patients living with T1D mellitus.Measures The Hypoglycaemia Fear Survey II-short form and the Hypoglycaemic Attitudes and Behaviour Scale were used to assess FoH. …”
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Are we ready for the new normal in e-business education? Sentiment analysis of learners' opinions on MOOCs by O. F. Derindag, B. Cizmeci

“…In the study, the awareness and recognition of the online community on the MOOCs concept is examined. In this direction, Turkish people's perception and attitudes toward MOOCs have been addressed via sentiment analysis on Eksi Sozluk, the largest social communication and discussion platform in Turkey.Results. …”
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Digital health technologies and innovation patterns in diabetes ecosystems by Odile-Florence Giger, Estelle Pfitzer, Wasu Mekniran, Hannes Gebhardt, Elgar Fleisch, Mia Jovanova, Tobias Kowatsch

“…Results Our analyses revealed the emergence of eight organization segments in digital diabetes ecosystems: real-world evidence analytics, healthcare management platforms, clinical decision support, diagnostic and monitoring, digital therapeutics, wellness, online community, and online pharmacy (RQ1). Visualizing the value streams among these organizations highlights the crucial importance of individual health data (RQ2). …”
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Examining the Emotional and Physical Health Impact in Users of Open-Source Automated Insulin Delivery and Sources of Support: Qualitative Analysis of Patient Narratives by Bryan Cleal, Yanbing Chen, Mandy Wäldchen, Hanne Ballhausen, Drew Cooper, Shane O'Donnell, Christine Knoll, Niklas Krug, Klemens Raile, Tebbe Ubben, Adrian Tappe, Dana Lewis, Ingrid Willaing, Timothy Skinner, Katarina Braune

“…Therefore, open-source AID systems, cocreated by an online community of people with diabetes and their families behind the hashtag #WeAreNotWaiting, have become increasingly popular. …”
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Experiences and opinions of adults with type 1 diabetes on the android-based open-source closed-loop system in China: a qualitative study by Chaofan Wang, Daizhi Yang, Jinhua Yan, Ping Ling, Mengyun Lei, Ying Ni, Xiaodi Guo, Qingying Huang

“…The scores of the questionnaire on AAPS satisfaction were calculated, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the results of different sections of the questionnaire.Setting Guangdong Province in China.Participants This study recruited patients with T1D from the Guangdong T1D translational medicine study and the ‘Tang Tang Quan’ T1D online community in China, who participated in a clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of AAPS.Results The study interviewed 20 adults with T1D aged 32±9.94 years. …”
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Strategies for using online health communities by elderly people in rural areas by K. A. Galkin

“…For each of them, the features of the use of online communities are outlined, as well as the role of such communities in everyday life. …”
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Network youth communities in the social-cultural space of the northern region: methodological and empirical aspects of the study by L. A. Chizhova, A. G. Tutygin, R. S. Stirmanova

“…The proposed and illustrated approach can be applied in the study of the behavior of online communities of different thematic focus, with different age, gender, educational and other characteristics. …”
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What Online User Innovation Communities Can Teach Us about Capturing the Experiences of Patients Living with Chronic Health Conditions. A Scoping Review. by Julia Amann, Claudia Zanini, Sara Rubinelli

“…The first set of studies focused on the interplay of factors related to user roles, motivations, and behaviors that shape the innovation process within online communities. Studies of the second set examined the role of firms in online user innovation initiatives, identifying different organizational strategies and challenges. …”
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Fanpower and Characters’Migration by Maria DICIEANU

“…The numerous platforms and online communities dedicated to fans of specific media products encourage people to unleash their creativity and produce content based on their favourite characters, occasionally even disregarding their initial context and designing for them alternative narratives or universes. …”
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Live/love-streams: poetry and relating at the time of Covid-19 by Camille MANFREDI

“…It examines the way poets rely on digital technology and the social media to foster online communities of readers, viewers, “friends” and “followers” and thus relate to the world by spreading contagion of another kind, be it emotional, aesthetic or otherwise, outside the conventional mechanisms of the commercial nexus.…”
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Giveaway. Per un’etnografia del dono nelle communities on line by Federica Scrimieri

“…The genesis of the research is connected to the growth of YouTube from a video platform to an extraordinary detonator of cultural phenomena demonstrated, since its inception in Italy in 2007, by the growing importance of social networking in the opening of new market niches almost contemporary to the new aggregative spaces represented by online communities. The latter are investigated not only through You Tube, but also through the reality of the Facebook groups "I'll give it to you if you come and get it" and similar, that seem to represent the future prospects of the gift on line.…”
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ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A TOOL FOR THE PROMOTION OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH: A RESOURCE SCIENTIFICALLY FEW EXPLORED by Arían Ramón Aladro Gonzalvo

“…This article aims to comment on the limited research interested in studying the features and particularities of online communities that provide information, advice and support in the execution, performance and promotion of the health and fitness activities. …”
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