Research

Here you will find a list of some of my papers.  If you would like one of these papers and there is not a link to it, let me know and I’ll send you a reprint.

Sense of Community in Organizations and Virtual Communities

Blanchard, A. L., Welbourne, J. A. & Boughton, M. A*. (2011) A Model of Online Trust: The Mediating Role of Norms and Sense of Virtual Community. Information, Communication, and Society, 14(1), 76-106. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. K., Askay, D*. & Callas, K*. (2010) Sense of Community in Professional Virtual Communities. In Shawn Long (Ed) Communication, relationships, and practices in virtual work. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. & Rashotte, L. S. (2010) The Role of Technology in the Development of Group Trust. In D. Latusek & A. Gerbasi (Eds). Trust and Technology. (Google Scholar)

Welbourne, J., Blanchard, A. L., Boughton, M. D.* (2009). Supportive Communication, Sense of Virtual Community and Health Outcomes in Online Infertility Groups. In Communities and Technology 2007: Proceedings of the Fourth Communities and Technologies Conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Testing a model of sense of virtual community, Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 2107-2123. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Sense of Virtual Community: Definition, Antecedents and Outcomes, In S. Kelsey & Kirk St. Amant (Eds) Handbook of Computer-Mediated Communication Research. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2008) The definition, antecedents and outcomes of successful virtual communities. In N. Kock (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of e-Collaboration.

Blanchard, A. L. (2007). Developing a sense of virtual community measure, Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 10, (6), 827-830. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2006). Listserv implementation and sense of community: The relationships with increased knowledge and face-to-face interaction. International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2(2), 27-45. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2004). The Experienced “Sense” of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The Data Base for Advanced in Information Systems, 35 (1), 64-71. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2004) Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying sense of community in the Julie/Julia Project. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture. L. Gurak et al (Eds). (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2001). Sense of Virtual Community–Maintaining the Sense of Belonging, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Nominated for best conference paper. (Google Scholar)

Models of Successful Virtual Communities

Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2007). Technology and Community Behavior in Online Environments In C. Steinfield, B. T. Pentland, M. Ackerman, & N. Contractor (Eds). Communities and Technology 2007: Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University, Springer. (Google Scholar)

Blanchard, A. L. (2004) Virtual behavior settings: An application of behavior settings theories to virtual communities, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 9(2). (Google Scholar)

Cyberloafing

Blanchard, A. L., & Henle, C. A. (2008) Correlates of different forms of cyberloafing: The role of norms and external locus of control. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 1067-1084.  (Google Scholar)

Henle, C. A., & Blanchard, A. L. (2008) Predicting cyberloafing at work: The relationship between work stressors, organizational sanctions, and cyberloafing. Journal of Managerial Issues 20(3), 383-400.

Social Capital and Virtual Communities

Blanchard, A. (2003) The Effects of Dispersed Virtual Communities on Face-to-Face Social Capital. In M. Huysman and V. Wulf (Eds.) Social Capital and Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Blanchard, A. L. & Horan, T. (1998) Social Capital and Virtual Communities, Social Science Computer Review, 16, 293-307. (Google Scholar)

Other Research

Blanchard, A. L., Welbourne, J. A., Gilmore, D., & Bullock*, A.  (2009) Followership styles and employee attachment to the organization.  The Psychologist Manager Journal, 12, 111-131. (Google Scholar)

Ensher, E. A., Huen, C., Blanchard, A. (2003). Online Mentoring and Computer-Mediated Communication: New Directions in Research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 63, 264-288. (Google scholar)