This study is about Trust And Characteristics of Information Technology On-line Communities for Knowledge Sharing.
Developed the network communication infrastructure, group of some people who have same interested something and use a computer come to...
This study is about Trust And Characteristics of Information Technology On-line Communities for Knowledge Sharing.
Developed the network communication infrastructure, group of some people who have same interested something and use a computer come together in online communities for exchanging information. However, other side of online communities are some kind of pool of knowledge and many users easily get information or knowledge. In information technology field, online communities are used for learning new knowledge of information technology, and also companies which are related information technology, such as software or hardware, provide their product information, and promote selling and using their products by online communities. Also open source project communities are kinds of Information Technology communities.
Open source project communities are a high rate of sharing knowledge. The community's members share program source and professional knowledge for developing program by their community. However many studies of online communities were market oriented communities or inter-personal communities. Therefore, this study focus on information technology online communities, and defines the relationship between the information technology online community's characters and trust of the information
technology online community, and the relationship between trust of the information technology online community and knowledge sharing in the information technology online community.
In this study, information technology online community's characters were found four characters through literature reviews. Four characters are the interaction of members, the reward of members, the reputation of online community, and content in online community. And then five hypotheses are build below.
H1. The interaction of members will relate the trust of information technology online community.
H2. The reward of members will relate the trust of information technology online community.
H3. The reputation of information technology online community will relate the trust of information technology online community.
H4. The content in information technology online community will relate the trust of information technology online community.
H5. The trust of information technology online community will relate knowledge sharing in information technology online community.
As a result of analyzed 127 samples which were collected by question sheet, four hypotheses were supported except H2 by statistics. So, the reward of members does not relate with trust of online community, and the others relate with trust of online community. Also the trust of online community relates with knowledge share in online community.
In conclusion, for sharing knowledge through trust, it recommends that online community must have high quality and useful content. Also, online community must have variety communication channel for interaction of members and keep good reputation of online community.