A Case Study of How a Reduction in Explicit Leadership Changed an Online Game Community

McEwan, Gregor; Gutwin, Carl

doi:10.1007/s10606-017-9282-0

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“…The qualities are similar, but the way the leadership work is performed and what it affords is what our paper contributes. Our results in this paper align with the literature within online communities (Ho and Huang, 2009;Koh et al, 2003;Luther and Bruckman, 2008;McEwan and Gutwin, 2017;Yee, 2006), and our findings corroborate Ho and Huang (2009) and Yee (2006) since we also show that strong virtual leadership can be connected to a more satisfied crowd and leadership in virtually and distributed group settings has been connected to higher motivation, more loyalty and increased cohesion within the group. Furthermore, what we also illustrate in this paper is that for school leaders to feel connected to staff in a virtual school setting, there is a need for increased one-to-one interaction and active outreach between the staff and the school leaders.…”

Section: Virtual Leadership Affordancessupporting

confidence: 91%

“…The literature on traditional leadership is vast compared to the literature on virtual leadership, although there is some literature on virtual leadership. However, that literature is mostly in connection to online communities and the leadership of those (McEwan and Gutwin, 2017). Along those lines, within online communities, strong virtual leadership has been proven to be connected to a more satisfied crowd (Ho and Huang, 2009), and leadership in virtually and distributed group settings has been connected to higher motivation, more loyalty and increased cohesion within the group (Yee, 2006).…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adopting to the virtual workplace: identifying leadership affordances in virtual schools

Willermark

Íslind

2022

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Purpose This study aims to explore virtual leadership work within educational settings in the light of social disruption. In 2020, a global pandemic changed the way we work. For school leaders, that involved running a virtual school overnight. Although there is a stream of research that explores leadership in solely virtual communities, there is a gap in the literature regarding practices that transition from analog to virtual practices and the changes in leadership in those types of work practices. Design/methodology/approach The data gathering method constitutes a questionnaire to explore school leaders’ experiences of virtual work and virtual leadership in light of social disruption. One hundred and five Swedish school leaders answered the questionnaire covering both fixed and open questions. Findings The results show that school leaders’ general experiences of transition to virtual school have worked relatively well. We show how the work changes and shift the focus in the virtual workplace. Originality/value The author’s contributions include theorizing about leadership affordances in virtual schools and providing implications for practice. The authors summarize our main contribution in five affordances that characterize virtual leadership, including a focus on core activities, trust-based government, 1:1 communication with staff, structure and clarity and active outreach activities. The results could be interesting for understanding the radical digitalization of leadership in the digital workplace.

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Section: Virtual Leadership Affordancessupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adopting to the virtual workplace: identifying leadership affordances in virtual schools

Willermark

Íslind

2022

JWL

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“…The study deployed a descriptive qualitative method with a case study approach [16]. This case study was conducted to some adolescents selected from students in Java island.…”

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The Diagnosis of Online Game Addiction on Indonesian Adolescent Using Certainty Factor Method

Saddhono¹,

Setyawan²,

Raharjo³

et al. 2020

ISI

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This research discusses about online games which become ones of the most popular commodities, particularly among adolescents. It is suggested that they prefer spending time by playing online games to studying. Consequently, the phenomenon of online game addiction gets significant. The study aimed to explain and describe the use of Certainty Factor Method with expert system to diagnose online game addiction on adolescents. Its setting was Java island by involving some students as subject of the study. Survey method was employed to obtain the data while its instrument in terms of questionnaire was provided in Google forms and distributed to the students. An interactive qualitative approach was deployed to analyze the data combined with certainty factor method to show the level of game online addiction. The result shows from the sample of data which have analyzed addiction level toward online games is relatively moderate. Most of the users are adolescents between 12 and 15 years old and spend about 4 until 6 hours in a day. This condition becomes worse if there is no treatment for adolescents. Hence, there is a need of parents' control and awareness toward children's activity in playing online games since it renders negative impacts particularly on children's learning activity and motor development.

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“…Hirschman (1970) predicted that while exit-based organizational logic excels in producing variety, choice, and innovation, voice-based logic confers greater commitment and stability. In their study of the GameCenter online community, for instance, McEwan and Gutwin (2017) observed that when the platform's "benevolent dictator" became less active over time, subgroups developed unexpected resilience.…”

Section: Feudal Defaults and The Possibility Of Voicementioning

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Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities

Schneider

2021

New Media & Society

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Online platforms train users to interact with each other through certain widespread interface designs. This article argues that an “implicit feudalism” informs the available options for community management on the dominant platforms for online communities. It is a pattern that grants user-administrators absolutist reign over their fiefdoms, with competition among them as the primary mechanism for quality control, typically under rules set by platform companies. Implicit feudalism emerged from technical conditions dating to early online networks. In light of alternative management mechanisms with more democratic features, it becomes all the more clear that implicit feudalism is not a necessary condition.

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A Case Study of How a Reduction in Explicit Leadership Changed an Online Game Community

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Adopting to the virtual workplace: identifying leadership affordances in virtual schools

Adopting to the virtual workplace: identifying leadership affordances in virtual schools

The Diagnosis of Online Game Addiction on Indonesian Adolescent Using Certainty Factor Method

Admins, mods, and benevolent dictators for life: The implicit feudalism of online communities

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