[Air-L] Studying online community

[live]

A lot of studies have been done on The Well, IRC and MUDs. Can't think  
of the authors off the top of my head, but worth a search.



On Jun 27, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:

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>
> 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:
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>> 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
>> martinvi at mail.student.oulu.fi  
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