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dc.contributor.authorKavoura, Androniki-
dc.contributor.authorBorges-Tiago, Teresa-
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-08T14:56:05Z-
dc.date.available2025-01-08T14:56:05Z-
dc.date.issued2016-07-15-
dc.identifiergoogle_scholar-ehunZ3gAAAAJ:e5wmG9Sq2KIC-
dc.identifier.issn1741-8216-
dc.identifier.issn1477-8394-
dc.identifier.otherehunZ3gAAAAJ:e5wmG9Sq2KIC-
dc.identifier.urihttps://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/2941-
dc.description.abstractThis paper employs Anderson's imagined communities and their contributing elements that connect people - even if they have never met - to apply it to TripAdvisor, arguing that TripAdvisor has characteristics of an imagined community, a concept initially employed in defining nations but may well apply in the creation and maintenance of online communities. We aimed to examine in this exploratory study whether the characteristics of an imagined community such as the use of special language, the association of ideas, cohesion and membership, interaction and the presence of experts create an online community for TripAdvisor. Content analysis of tourist comments posted in TripAdvisor regarding top ten restaurants in Azores and Hawaii was performed over 2013. The coding was done by two coders and the unit of analysis was the tourists' posts. Final data composition derived from 686 customers that performed 813 reviews. TripAdvisor has all the characteristics of an imagined community. This is the first time that the concept of the imagined communities is applied in tourism studies and online communities, making a theoretical and practical contribution to the concept of imagined communities in the context of online travel communication through people's reviews.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInderscience Publishers (IEL)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Web Based Communitiesen_US
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Web Based Communities 12 (3), 238-261, 2016-
dc.subjectE-WOMen_US
dc.subjectElectronic WOMen_US
dc.subjectWord-of-mouthen_US
dc.subjectOnline communitiesen_US
dc.subjectTripAdvisoren_US
dc.subjectOnline reviewsen_US
dc.subjectSocial networking sitesen_US
dc.subjectSNSen_US
dc.subjectIsland destinationsen_US
dc.subjectOnline travel communicationen_US
dc.subjectVirtual communitiesen_US
dc.subjectWeb based communitiesen_US
dc.subjectImagined communitiesen_US
dc.subjectTourist commentsen_US
dc.subjectTop restaurantsen_US
dc.subjectAzoresen_US
dc.subjectHawaiien_US
dc.subjectTourism studiesen_US
dc.titleUnderstanding online communities on social networks via the notion of imagined communities: the case of Tripdvisoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1504/IJWBC.2016.077759en_US
dc.relation.deptDepartment of Business Administrationen_US
dc.relation.facultySchool of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.volume12en_US
dc.relation.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.spage238en_US
dc.identifier.epage261en_US
dc.collaborationUniversity of West Attica (UNIWA)en_US
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dc.publicationPeer Revieweden_US
dc.countryGreeceen_US
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crisitem.author.facultySchool of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences-
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