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Abfalter, D., Zaglia, M. E., & Mueller, J. (2012). Sense of virtual community: A follow up on its measurement. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 400-404.

Acar, A. (2008). Antecedents and consequences of online social networking behavior: The case of Facebook. Journal of Website Promotion, 33, 62-83.

Ackland, R., & O'Neil, M. (2011). Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement. Social Networks, 33, 177-190.

Adler, P. A., & Adler, P. (2008). The cyber worlds of self-injurers: Deviant communities, relationships, and selves. Symbolic Interaction, 31, 33-56.

Ahn, J. (2011). The effect of social network sites on adolescents' social and academic development: Current theories and controversies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62, 1435-1445.

Ahuja, M. K., & Galvin, J. E. (2003). Socialization in virtual groups. Journal of Management, 29, 161-185.

Aiken, M., & Waller, B. (2000). Flaming among first-time group support system users. Information & Management, 37, 95-100.

Alarcón-del-Amo, M. D. C., Lorenzo-Romero, C., & Gómez-Borja, M.-A. (2011). Classifying and profiling social networking site users: A latent segmentation approach. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 547-553.

Alemi, F., Haack, M., Nemes, S., Harge, A., & Baghi, H. (2010). Impact of online counseling on drug use: A pilot study. Quality Management in Health Care, 19, 62-69.

Allan, B., & Lewis, D. (2006). Virtual learning communities as a vehicle for workforce development: A case study. Journal of Workplace Learning, 18, 367-383.

Altschuller, S., & Benbunan-Fich, R. (2010). Trust, performance, and the communication process in ad hoc decision-making virtual teams. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 16, 27-47.

Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2005). Internet minimal group paradigm. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 8, 140-142.

Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & Vinitzky, G. (2010). Social network use and personality. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 1289-1295.

Anderson, A. H., McEwan, R., Bal, J., & Carletta, J. (2007). Virtual team meetings: An analysis of communication and context. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, p.2558-p.2580.

Angie, A. S., Davis, J. L., Allen, M. T., Byrne, C. L., Ruark, G. A., Cunningham, C. B., Hoang, T. S., Bernard, D. R., Hughes, M. G., Connelly, S., O’Hair, H. D., & Mumford, M. D. (2011). Studying ideological groups online: Identification and assessment of risk factors for violence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 627-657.

Antheunis, M. L., & Schouten, A. P. (2011). The effects of other-generated and system-generated cues on adolescents’ perceived attractiveness on social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 16, 391-406.

Antheunis, M. L., Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2010). Getting acquainted through social network sites: Testing a model of online uncertainty reduction and social attraction. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 100-109.

Aydos‌, L., Titov,‌ N., & Andrews, ‌G. (2009). Shyness 5: The clinical effectiveness of Internet-based clinician-assisted treatment of social phobia. Australasian Psychiatry, 17, 488-492.

Bagozzi, R. P., Dholakia, U. M., & Mookerjee, A. (2006). Individual and group bases of social influence in online environments. Media Psychology, 8, 95-126.

Baker, J. R., & Moore, S. M. (2008). Distress, coping, and blogging: Comparing new Myspace users by their intention to blog. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 11, 81-85.

Baker, L. R., & Oswald, D. L. (2010). Shyness and online social networking services. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 873-889.

Baker, R. K., & White, M. (2010). Predicting adolescents’ use of social networking sites from an extended theory of planned behaviour perspective. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 1591-1597.

Baker, R. K., & White, K. M. (2011). In their own words: Why teenagers don’t use social networking sites. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 395-398.

Ballard, C., & Prine, R. (2002). Citizen perceptions of community policing. Social Science Computer Review, 20, 485-493.

Barak, A., & Gluck-Ofri, O. (2007). Degree and reciprocity of self-disclosure in online forums. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 407-417.

Baran, B. (2010). Facebook as a formal instructional environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41, 146-149.

Baran, B., & Cagiltay, K. (2010). The dynamics of online communities in the activity theory framework. Educational Technology & Society, 13, 155-166.

Barker , V. (2009). Older adolescents' motivations for social network site use: The influence of gender, group identity, and collective self-esteem. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 12, 209-213.

Bateman, P. J., Pike, J. C., & Butler, B. S. (2011). To disclose or not: Publicness in social networking sites. Information Technology & People, 24, 78-100.

Baym, N. K., & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that bind? Predicting friendship strength in a music-based social network. Information, Communication & Society, 12, 408-427.

Beer, D. (2008). Social network(ing) sites... revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 516-529.

Bell, V. (2007). Online information, extreme communities and Internet therapy: Is the Internet good for our mental health? Journal of Mental Health, 16, 445-457.

Biddix, J. P., &  Park, H. W. (2008). Online networks of student protest: The case of the living wage campaign. New Media & Society, 10, 871-891.

Birchmeier, Z., Joinson, A. N., & Dietz-Uhler, B. (2005). Storming and forming a normative response to a deception revealed online. Social Science Computer Review, 23, 108-121.

Blanchard, A. L. (2007). Developing a sense of virtual community measure. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 827-830.

Blanchard, A. L. (2008). Testing a model of sense of virtual community. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2107-2123.

Blanchard, A. (2008). Sense of virtual community. In: S. Kelsey & K. S. Amant (Eds.), Handbook of research on compurer mediated communication (pp. 325-338). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Blood, R. (2004). How blogging software reshapes the online community. Communications of the ACM, 47, 53-55.

Boniel-Nissim, M., Latzer, Y. (2011). The characteristics of  pro-ana community. In D. Stein & Y. Latzer (Eds.), Treatment and special issue of eating disorders (pp.73-84). New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Boon, S., & Sinclair, C. (2009). A world I don't inhabit: Disquiet and identity in Second Life and Facebook. Educational Media International, 46, 99-110.

Booth, P. (2008). Rereading fandom: MySpace character personas and narrative identification. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25, 514-536.

Borgida, E., Sullivan, J. L., Oxendine, A., Jackson, M. S., & Gangl, A. (2002). Civic culture meets the digital divide : The role of community electronic networks. Journal of Social Issues, 58, 125-141.

Bos, N., Zimmerman, A.,  Olson, J.,  Yew, J.,  Yerkie, J.,  Dahl, E., &  Olson, G. (2007). From shared databases to communities of practice: A taxonomy of collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12, 652-672.

Boyd, D. M., & Ellison, N. B. (2008). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 210-230.

Boyle, K., & Johnson, T. J. (2010). MySpace is your space? Examining self-presentation of Myspace users. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 1392-1399.

Brand, R. J, Bonatsos, A., D’Orazio, R., & DeShong, H. (2012). What is beautiful is good, even online: Correlations between photo attractiveness and text attractiveness in men’s online dating profiles. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 166–170.

Brandon, D. P., & Hillingshead, A. B. (2007). Characterizing online groups. In A. Joinson, K. McKenna, T. Postmes & U. Reips (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Internet psychology (pp. 105-120). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Brivio, E., & Cilento, I. F. (2009). Self presentation in blogs and social networks. Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine, 7, 113-115.

Brukman, A. (2006). Learning in online communities. In R. K. Sawyer (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of the learning sciences (pp. 461-472). Boston, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Bull, S. S., Breslin, L. T., Wright, E. E., Black, S. R., Levine, D., & Santelli, J. S. (2011). Case study: An ethics case study of HIV prevention research on Facebook: The just/us study. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 36, 1082-1092.

Burri, M., Baujard, V., & Etter, J.-F. (2006). A qualitative analysis of an Internet discussion forum for recent ex-smokers. Nicotine & Tobacco Research,  8, 13-19.

Byoungsoo, K. (2011). Understanding antecedents of continuance intention in social-networking services. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 199-205.

Campbell-Grossman, C. K., Brage Hudson, D., Keating-Lefler, R., & Heusinkvelt, S. (2009). New mothers network: The provision of social support to single, low-income, African American mothers via e-mail messages. Journal of Family Nursing, 15, 220-236.

Carlson, J. R., George, J. F., Burgoon, J. K., Adkins, M., &. White, C. H. (2004). Deception in computer-mediated communication. Group Decision and Negotiation, 13, 5–28.

Carroll, B., & Landry, K. (2010). Logging on and letting out: Using online social networks to grieve and to mourn. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30, 341-349.

Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., Kavanaugh, A, Dunlap, D., Schafer, W., Snook, J., & Isenhour, P. (2006). Social and civic participation in a community network. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin, & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Computers, phones, and the Internet: Domesticating information technology (pp. 168-184). New York: Oxford University Press.

Castelli, L., Corazzini, L. L., & Geminiani, G. C. (2008). Spatial navigation in large-scale virtual environments: Gender differences in survey tasks. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1643-1667.

Cavaglion, G. (2008). Voices of coping in an Italian self-help virtual community of cyberporn dependents. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 11, 599-601.

Centola, D. (2010). The spread of behavior in an online social network experiment. Science, 329, 1194-1197.

Chan, K. W., & Li, S. Y. (2010). Understanding consumer-to-consumer interactions in virtual communities: The salience of reciprocity. Journal of Business Research, 63, 1033-1040.

Chang, C. K., Chen, G. D., & Li, L. Y. (2008). Constructing a community of practice to improve coursework activity. Computers & Education, 50, 235-247.

Chang, Y. P., & Zhu, D. H. (2012). The role of perceived social capital and flow experience in building users’ continuance intention to social networking sites in China. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 995-1001.

Chau, M., & Xu, J. (2007). Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 57-70.

Chen, W. (2010). Internet-usage patterns of immigrants in the process of intercultural adaptation. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 387-399.

Cheung, C. M. K., Chiu, P-Y., & Lee, M. K. O. (2011). Online social networks: Why do students use Facebook? Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 1337-1343.

Cheung, C. M. K., & Lee, M. K. O. (2009). Understanding the sustainability of a virtual community: Model development and empirical test. Journal of Information Science, 35, 279-298.

Cho, H. C., & Lee, J. S. (2008). Collaborative information seeking in intercultural computer-mediated communication groups - Testing the influence of social context using social network analysis. Communication Research, 35, 548-573.

Chou, H.-T. G., & Edge, N. (2012). ‘‘They are happier and having better lives than I am’’: The impact of using Facebook on perceptions of others’ lives. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15, 117-121.

Christofides, E., Muise, A., & Desmarais, S. (2009). Information disclosure and control on facebook: Are they two sides of the same coin or two different processes? CyberPsychology & Behavior, 12, 341-345.

Chu, K.-M. (2009). A study of members’ helping behaviors in online community. Internet Research, 19, 279-292.

Chung, J. E., Park, N., Wang, H., Fulk, J., & McLaughlin, M. (2010). Age differences in perceptions of online community participation among  non-users: An extension of the technology acceptance model. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 1674-1684.

Clouder, L., Dalley, J., Hargreaves, J., Parkes, S., Sellars, J., & Toms, J. (2009). Electronic [re]constitution of groups: Group dynamics from face-to-face to an online setting. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 1, 467-480.

Cole, J., Nolan, J., Seko, Y., Mancuso, K., & Ospina, A. (2011). GimpGirl grows up: Women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community. New Media & Society, 13, 1161-1179.

Coleman, L. J., & Bahnan, N. (2009). Segmentation practices of e-dating. In C. Romm-Livermore & K. Setzekorn (Eds.), Social networking communities and e-dating services: Concepts and implications (pp. 253-265). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference/IGI Global.

Collins, M. P & Berge, Z. L (2008). Moderating discussion groups using computer mediated communication, In S. Kelsey & K. S. Amant (Eds.), Handbook of research on compurer mediated communication (pp. 619-633). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Contractor, N. (2009). The emergence of multidimensional networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14, 743-747.

Courtois, C., Mechant, P., & de Marez, L. (2012). Communicating creativity on YouTube: What and for whom? CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15, 129-134.

Cox, A. M. (2008). Flickr: a case study of Web2.0. New Information Perspectives, 60, 493-516.

Crowley, M. S. (2010). How r u??? Lesbian and bi-identified youth on MySpace. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 14, 52-60.

Daley, L. K., Spalla, T. L., Arndt, M. J., & Warnes, A. M. (2008). Videoconferencing and Web-based conferencing to enhance learning communities. Journal of Nursing Education, 47, 78-81.

Danowski, J. A., & Park, D. W. (2009). Networks of the dead or alive in cyberspace: Public intellectuals in the mass and Internet media. New Media & Society, 11, 337-356.

Darvell, M. J., Walsh, S. P., & White, K. M. (2011). Facebook tells me so: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to understand partner-monitoring behavior on Facebook. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 717-722.

Davidson, B. (1998). The Internet and the large group. Group Analysis, 31, 457-471.

Davidson, J. (2008). Autistic culture online: Virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum. Social & Cultural Geography, 9, 791-806.

Davison, H. K., Maraist, C., & Bing, M. N. (2011). Friend or foe? The promise and pitfalls of using social networking sites for HR decisions. Journal of Business and Psychology, 26, 153-159.

Debatin, B., Lovejoy, J. P., Horn, A.-K., & Hughes, B. N. (2009). Facebook and online privacy: Attitudes, behaviors, and unintended consequences. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15, 83-108.

De Cindio, F., Gentile, O., Grew, P., & Redolfi., D. (2003). Community Networks: Rules of behavior and social structure. The Information Society, 19, 395-406.

Demange, G. (2010). Sharing information in web communities. Games and Economic Behavior, 68, 580-601.

de Valck, K., van Bruggen, G., & Wierenga, B. (2009). Virtual communities: A marketing perspective. Decision Support Systems, 47, 185-203.

Diehl, W. C., & Prins, E. (2008). Unintended outcomes in Second Life: Intercultural literacy and cultural identity in a virtual world. Language and Intercultural Communication, 8, 101-118.

Dino, A., Reysen, S., & Branscombe, N. R. (2009). Online interactions between group members who differ in status. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 28, 85-93.

Donath, J. S. (1999). Identity and deception in the virtual community. In P. Kollock & A. S. Smith, (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (29-59). London, UK: Routledge.

Dong, Q., Urista, M. A., & Gundrum, D. (2008). The impact of emotional intelligence, self-esteem, and self-image on romantic communication over MySpace. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 11, 577-578.

Douglas, K. M. (2007). Psychology, discrimination and hate groups online. In A. Joinson, K. McKenna, T. Postmes & U. Reips (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Internet psychology (pp. 155-164). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dowdell, E. B., Burgess, A. W., & Flores, J. R. (2011). Online social networking patterns among adolescents, young adults, and sexual offenders. American Journal of Nursing, 111, 28-36.

Drentea, P., & Moren-Cross, J. L. (2005). Social capital and social support on the web: The case of an Internet mother site. Sociology of Health & Illness, 27, 920-943.

Dubrofsky, R. E. (2011). Surveillance on reality television and Facebook: From authenticity to flowing data. Communication Theory, 21, 111-129.

Dumont, G., & Candler, G. (2005).  Virtual jungles: Survival, accountability, and governance in online communities. American Review of Public Administration, 35, 287-299.

Duffy, M. E. (2003). Web of hate: A fantasy theme analysis of the rhetorical vision of hate groups online. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 27, 291-312.

Duncan-Howell, J. (2010). Teachers making connections: Online communities as a source of professional learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41, 324-340.

Dutta-Bergman, M. J. (2005). Access to the Internet in the context of community participation and community satisfaction. New Media & Society, 7, 89-109.

Egan, K. G., & Moreno, M. A. (2010). Prevalence of stress references on college freshmen Facebook profiles. Computers Informatics Nursing, 29, 586-592.

Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of facebook "Friends:" Social capital and  college students’ use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12, 1143-1168.

Elm, M. S. (2009). “Teenagers get undressed on the Internet” young people’s exposure of bodies in a Swedish Internet community. Nordicom Review, 30, 87-103.

Elphinston, R. A., & Noller, P. (2011). Time to face it! Facebook intrusion and the implications for romantic jealousy and relationship satisfaction. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 631-635.

Enders, A., Hungenberg, H., Denker, H.-P., & Mauch, S.(2008). The long tail of social networking: Revenue models of social networking sites. European Management Journal, 26, 199-211.

Erickson, I. (2010). Geography and community: New forms of interaction among people and places. American Behavioral Scientist, 53, 1194-1207.

Fang, Y.-H., & Chiu, C.-M. (2010). In justice we trust: Exploring knowledge-sharing continuance intentions in virtual communities of practice. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 235-246.

Farooq, U., Ganoe, C. H., Xiao, L., Merkel, C. B., Rosson, M. B., & Carroll, J. M. (2007). Supporting community-based learning: Case study of a geographical community organization designing its website. Behaviour & Information Technology, 26, 5-21.

Farquharson, K. (2011). Doing 'race' on the Internet: A study of online parenting communities. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 32, 479-493.

Farrow, H., & Yuan, Y. C. (2011). Building stronger ties with alumni through Facebook to increase volunteerism and charitable giving. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 16, 445-464.

Figueiredo, F., Jorge, J., Hanisch, F., & Case, C. (2010). Refereed digital publication to support online communities. International Journal of Web Based Communities, 6, 62-75.

Flanagin, A. J., Tiyaamornwong, V., O’Connor, J., & Seibold, D. R. (2002). Computer-mediated group work: The interaction of member sex and anonymity. Communication Research, 29, 66-93.

Fogel, J., & Nehmad, E. (2009). Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 153-160.

Foltz, F., & Foltz, F. (2003). Religion on the Internet: Community and virtual existence. Bulletin of  Science, Technology & Society, 23, 321-330.

Forster, P. M. (2004). Psychological sense of community in groups on the Internet. Behaviour Change, 21, 141-146.

Francisco, V. T., Fawcett, S. B., Schultz, J. A., Berkowitz. B., Wolff, T. J., & Nagy, G. (2001). Using Internet-based resources to build community capacity: The community tool box [http://ctb.ukans.edu]. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 293-300.

Ganley, D., & Lampe, C. (2009). The ties that bind: Social network principles in online communities. Decision Support Systems, 47, 266-274.

Gavin, J., Rodham, K., & Poyer, H. (2008). The presentation of "pro-anorexia" in online group interactions. Qualitative Health Research, 18, 325-333.

Geister, S., Konradt, U., & Hertel, G. (2006). Effects of process feedback on motivation, satisfaction, and performance in virtual teams. Small Group Research, 37, 459-489.

Gildenhuys, A. (2008). The virtual institute of group analysis. Group Analysis, 41, 140-162.

Glickman, S. W., Galhenage, S., McNair, L., Barber, Z., Patel, K., Schulman, K. A., & McHutchison, J. G. (2011). The potential influence of Internet-based social networking on the conduct of clinical research studies. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 7, 71-80.

Ginossar, T. (2008). Online participation: A content analysis of differences in utilization of two online cancer communities by men and women, patients and family members. Health Communication, 23, 1-12.

Gonzales, A. L., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Mirror, mirror on my Facebook wall: Effects of exposure to Facebook on self-esteem. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 79-83.

Gonzalez-Navarro, P., Orengo, V., Zornoza, A., Ripoll, P., & Peiro, J. M. (2010). Group interaction styles in a virtual context: The effects on group outcomes. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 1472-1480.

Gosling, S. D., Augustine, A. A., Vazire, S., Holtzman, N., & Gaddis, S. (2011). Manifestations of personality in online social networks: Self-reported facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 483-488.

Gowen, K., Deschaine, M., Gruttadara, D., & Markey, D. (2012). Young adults with mental health conditions and social networking websites: Seeking tools to build community. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35, 245-250.

Grasmuck, S., Martin, J., & Zhao, S. (2009). Ethno-racial identity displays on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15, 158-188.

Greenhow, C., & Burton, L. (2011). Help from my "friends": Social capital in the social network sites of low-income students. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 45, 223-245.

Greenhow, C., & Robelia, B. (2009). Informal learning and identity formation in online social networks. Learning, Media & Technology, 34, 119-140.

Gressick, J., & Derry, S. J. (2010). Distributed leadership in online groups. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 5, 211-236.

Grodzinsky, F. S., & Tavani, H. T. (2007). Online communities, democratic ideals, and the digital divide. In S. Hongladarom, & C. Ess (Eds.), Information technology ethics: Cultural perspectives (pp. 20-30). Hershey, PA, US: Idea Group.

Gruzd, A., Wellman, B., & Takhteyev, Y. (2011). Imagining Twitter as an imagined community. American Behavioral Scientist, 55, p. 1294-p. 1318.

Guiller, J., & Durndell, A. (2007). Students’ linguistic behaviour in online discussion groups: Does gender matter? Computers in Human Behavior, 23, p. 2240-p. 2255.

Guo, B., Bricout, J. C., & Huang, J. (2005). A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China. Disability & Society, 20, 49-66.

Gupta, S., Kim, H.-W., & Shin, S.-J. (2010). Converting virtual community members into online buyers. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 513-520.

Gustafson, K. E. (2002). Join now, membership is free: Women’s Web sites and the coding of community. In M. Consaluo, & S. Paasonen (Eds.), Women & everyday uses of the Internet: Agency & identity (pp. 168-190). New York: Perer Lang Publishing.

Haferkamp, N., Eimler, S. C., Papadakis, A.-M., & Kruck, J. V. (2012). Men are from Mars, women are from Venus? Examining gender differences in self-presentation on social networking sites. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15, 91-98.

Haferkamp, N., & Krämer, N. C. (2011). Social comparison 2.0: examining the effects of online profiles on social-networking sites. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 14, 309-314.

Hagger-Johnson, G., Egan, V., & Stillwel, D. (2011). Are social networking profiles reliable indicators of sensational interests? Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 71-76.

Hallett, J., Brown, G., Maycock, B., & Langdon, P. (2007). Changing communities, changing spaces: The challenges of health promotion outreach in cyberspace. Promotion & Education, 14, 150-154.

Hargittai, E. (2008). Whose space? Differences among users and non-users of social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13, 276-297.

Hargittai, E., & Hsieh, Y.-l. P. (2010). Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites. Information, Communication & Society, 13, 515-536.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Social networks and online community. In A. Joinson, K. McKenna, T. Postmes & U. Reips (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Internet psychology (pp. 121-138). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Haythornthwaite, C., & Nielsen, A. L. (2007). Revisiting computer-mediated communication for work, community, and learning. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.), Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, interpersonal and transpersonal implications (2nd ed.) (pp. 167-186). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Hemetsberger, A., & Reinhardt, C. (2009). Collective development in open-source communities: An activity theoretical perspective on successful online collaboration. Organization Studies, 30, 987-1008.

Henderson, M., de Zwart, M., Lindsay, D., & Phillips, M. (2010). Legal risks for students using social networking sites. Australian Educational Computing, 25, 3-7.

Herbert, C. F., & Brunet, A. (2010). Social networking sites in the aftermath of trauma. In A. Brunet, A. R. Ashbaugh, & C. F. Herbert (Eds.), Internet use in the aftermath of trauma (pp. 85-98). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.

Hercheui, M. D. (2011). A literature review of virtual communities. Information, Communication & Society, 14, 1-23.

Hlebec, V., Manfreda, K. L., & Vehovar, V. (2006). The social support networks of Internet users. New Media & Society, 8, 9-32.

Ho, S.-C., Ting, P.-H., Bau, D.-Y., & Wei, C.-C. (2011). Knowledge-sharing intention in a virtual community: A study of participants in the Chinese Wikipedia. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 541-545.

Ho, S.-H., & Huang, C.-H. (2009). Exploring success factors of video game communities in hierarchical linear modeling: The perspectives of members and leaders. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 761-769.

Hobman, E. V., Bordia, P., Irmer, B., & Chang, A. (2002). The expression of conflict in computer-mediated and face-to-face groups. Small Group Research, 33, 439-465.

Holme, P., Edling, C. R., & Liljeros, F. (2004). Structure and time evolution of an Internet dating community. Social Networks, 26, 155-174.

Holt, T. J. (2007). Subcultural evolution? Examining the influence of on- and off-line experiences on deviant subcultures. Deviant Behavior, 28, 171-198.

Hooper, S., Rosser, B. R. S., Horvath, K. J., Oakes, J. M., & Danilenko, G. (2008). An online needs assessment of a virtual community: What men who use the Internet to seek sex with men want in Internet-based HIV prevention. AIDS Behavior, 12, 867-875.

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