[Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily

[Jesper Tække]

Also in the conference paper I provide a definition of 'the border of
meaning' and a discussion of the differences between communities, defined
by having a border of meaning on the one side, and networks lacking a
border of meaning on the other side.
Maybe someone can tell us where to find the papers written for
Gothenburg?
----- Original meddelelse -----

> Fra: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex at googlemail.com>
> Til: Jesper Tække <ses at post10.tele.dk>
> Dato: Ons, 06. okt 2010 13:42
> Emne: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Best wishes,
> Alexander.
> 
> 2010/10/6 Jesper Tække < ses at post10.tele.dk [mailto:ses at post10.tele.dk]>
> 
>   Dear Alexander,
> 
>   I have been working with something like you are asking for using
>   the Luhmannit concept the ?border of meaning? which means that
>   the community through its history of communication has
>   conditionated what they are talking about and in what tone.
> 
>   I have studied Usenet Newsgroups, webolgs and chatrooms - here is
>   a link to my chat article:
> 
>   http://cfi.au.dk/fileadmin/www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfis_skriftserie/011_taekke.pdf [http://cfi.au.dk/fileadmin/www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfis_skriftserie/011_taekke.pdf]
> 
>   Now I am looking at Facebook groups: Are they communities, or are
>   there communities among them, or are they only ?places? for
>   self-presentation and/or kinds of petition?
> 
>   At our conference in Gothenburg I present a paper critically
>   discussing Facebook as a network within the societal community -
>   see the front page of the program.
> 
>   Best Regards
>   Jesper
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original meddelelse -----
>   > Fra: Semenov Alexander < semenoffalex at googlemail.com [mailto:semenoffalex at googlemail.com]>
>   > Til: air-l at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org]
>   > Dato: Ons, 06. okt 2010 10:46
>   > Emne: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily
>   >
>   > Hello, everybody.
>   > I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through
>   > common
>   > itnerests.
>   > My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in
>   LiveJournals
>   > are not
>   > such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of
>   > interaction. So
>   > that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of
>   taste and
>   > part of
>   > self-presentation in their profiles.
>   > In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one
>   of
>   > such
>   > communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article (
>   >
>   http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal [http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of-LiveJournal]
>   > -FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005).
>   > Their data show that there is no correlation between interests
>   and
>   > friends
>   > and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So,
>   that is
>   > my
>   > working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some
>   sources.
>   > I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another
>   > approach.
>   > --
>   > Alexander Semenov.
>   > MA student
>   > Faculty of Sociology
>   > Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
>   > http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html [http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html]
>   >
>   > Graduate Student in Sociology at
>   > State University - Higher School of Economics
>   > http://www.hse.ru/eng [http://www.hse.ru/eng]
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>   Jesper Tække
>   Assistant Professor, PhD
>   Information and Media Studies
>   Aarhus University
> 
>   http://www.jespertaekke.dk [http://www.jespertaekke.dk]
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> 
> 
> 
> --
> Alexander Semenov.
> MA student
> Faculty of Sociology
> Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
> http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html [http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html]
> 
> Graduate Student in Sociology at
> State University - Higher School of Economics
> http://www.hse.ru/eng [http://www.hse.ru/eng]


Jesper Tække
Assistant Professor, PhD
Information and Media Studies
Aarhus University

http://www.jespertaekke.dk
imvjet at hum.au.dk