Author(s)

Zhihong Li¹, Ya’nan Xu¹, Kexin Li²

¹School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
²School of Journalism and Communication, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

The advent of the age of Information shifts the environment we live in from off-line to on-line. The prospect of Collective Intelligence (CI) is promising. Based on this background, the aim of this paper is to discover the emergence mechanism and influence factors of CI in knowledge communities using the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis. On the basis of the previous research work, our model theorizes that the two dimensions of social network (i.e., interactive network structure and participant’s characteristics) affect two references of effectiveness (i.e. group knowledge production and participation of group decision). And this hypothetical model is validated with simulation data from “Zhihu” community. Our model has been useful since it offers some inspirations and directions to promote the level of CI in knowledge communities.

Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Community, Social Network Analysis, Zhihu

Li, Z. , Xu, Y. and Li, K. (2019) The Influence Factors of Collective Intelligence Emergence in Knowledge Communities Based on Social Network Analysis. International Journal of Intelligence Science, 9, 23-43. doi: 10.4236/ijis.2019.91002.