[Air-L] Studying online community

[Alan Sondheim]

Jon Marshall wrote an extended ethnography a few years ago on Cybermind, 
an email list I began with Michael Current, in 1994. It's been running 
since then; Marshall was a participant both online and offline (in a 1996 
Cybermind Conference in Perth, and in various fleshmeets as we called 
them, in Sydney). I'd check out Living on Cybermind: Categories, 
Communication, and Control, 2007. - Aalan


On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Annamari Martinviita wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm just getting started on my PhD studies, unfunded as yet, regarding new 
> social technologies and online communities and would really appreciate any 
> hints, tips and advice members of this list may have on good information 
> sources, relevant publications, events and so on.
>
> Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how communities extend from the online to 
> the offline and vice versa, how participation in online communities becomes 
> part of every-day life, how the lines between offline and online 
> communication and relationship building are blurred as access to online 
> social tools becomes ubiquitous. More specifically, I am looking at how new 
> social technologies affect local communities and what developers should take 
> into consideration while creating new tools with a view of fostering online 
> community. I hope to come up with results that offer an insight into how the 
> concept of community is changing for members of a hyper-connected society, 
> and the implications of that change for local communities. My research 
> approach is ethnographic.
>
> It would be great to hear from others with similar interests, and also 
> perhaps to discover fellow "sufferers" at similar stages of their academic 
> careers, for a bit of mutual support and encouragement. :) Of course, any 
> advice would be hugely appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Annamari Martinviita
> PhD student
> University of Oulu, Finland
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