@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10721,
	  title     = { The Socio-Technical Indicator Model: Socially-Sensitive CMC Technology, with an Implementation of Representative Moderation },
	  author    = {Zach-Amaury Boufoy-Bastick and  Lenandlar Singh},
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	  abstract     = {Computer-mediated communication technologies which provide for virtual communities have typically evolved in a cross-dichotomous manner, such that technical constructs of the technology have evolved independently from the social environment of the community. The present paper analyses some limitations of current implementations of computer-mediated communication technology that are implied by such a dichotomy, and discusses their inhibiting effects on possible developments of virtual communities. A Socio-Technical Indicator Model is introduced that utilizes integrated feedback to describe, simulate and operationalise increasing representativeness within a variety of structurally and parametrically diverse systems. In illustration, applications of the model are briefly described for financial markets and for eco-systems. A detailed application is then provided to resolve the aforementioned technical limitations of moderation on the evolution of virtual communities. The application parameterises virtual communities to function as self-transforming social-technical systems which are sensitive to emergent and shifting community values as products of on-going communications within the collective.
},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering},
	  volume    = {1},
	  number    = {2},
	  year      = {2007},
	  pages     = {390 - 400},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10721},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/2},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 2, 2007},
	}