This paper extends theories of public goods to interactive communication systems. Two key public communication goods are identified. Connectivity provides point-to-point communication, and communality links members through commonly held information, such as that often found in databases. These extensions are important, we argue, because communication public goods operate differently from tradit...

In her article "Electronic Literature in China" Jinghua Guo discusses how the reception and the critical contexts of production of online literature are different in China from those in the West despite similar developments in digital technology. Guo traces the development of Chinese digital literature, its history, and the particular characteristics and unique cultural significance in the cont...

The success of a product family heavily depends on the degree of reuse achieved when developing product family based customer specific applications. If a significant amount of the customer requirements can be realized by using the communality and the variability defined for the product family, the reuse level is high; if not, the reuse level is low. In this paper we elaborate on the influence o...

Results of a Monte Carlo study of exploratory factor analysis demonstrate that in studies characterized by low sample sizes the population factor structure can be adequately recovered if communalities are high, model error is low, and few factors are retained. These are conditions likely to be encountered in behavior genetics research involving mean scores obtained from sets of inbred strains. ...

This study's aim was to assess the validity of naive subjects' implicit personality theories, the correspondence among the theories, and the influence of social desirability on them. High school girls classified the items from the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate scale into clusters representing different traits. These clusters agreed closely with the factors obtained in previous factor analyses of se...

The study introduces the results of a discourses survey mapping the media content and public views on the emergence of a residential community in a northern Finnish city. Three major discourses were seen to be at play in the process. The first of these highlighted communality and envisioned the area as a modern ‘village community’ where children were to be raised as active citizens. Secondly, t...

In today’s globalised, interconnected world, intercultural learning is relevant and necessary for children of all backgrounds ages. This study investigates how a shared narrative culture forms between primary school in Finland Belgium during an Storycrafting drawing exchange. Ethnographic data are analysed by following chain related situations over the course The findings show that was negotiat...

The emotionality of modern times is evident in the ways which people are religious. Among Christian denominations, Charismatic/Pentecostal movement, all its diversity, most successful spreading globally. It has been argued that charismatic communities venues interaction and powerful offering emotional experiences. However, order for such religious experiences to lead a continuity interaction, l...