[Air-L] Studying online community

[Scott MacLeod]

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 On Sun 27/06/10  3:26 PM , live human.factor.one at gmail.com sent:
 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:
 >
 >
 > 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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