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

Caroline Haythornthwaite haythorn at illinois.edu
Thu Oct 7 22:05:38 PDT 2010


Quite agree - that an online site is a community is a hypothesis to be tested.  
/Caroline

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:30:06 +0400
>From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex at googlemail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily  
>To: Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn at illinois.edu>
>Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
>   Hello, Caroline!
>   I didn't mean entire LiveJournal, only one of its
>   communities. My case is community "sociolog" and the
>   problem is that during 2 huge scandals in russian
>   sociology, which mostly took part in blogosphere (in
>   Russia blogosphere = LiveJournal) this community
>   wasn't the main place of discussion.
>   So, my arguement is that community should be defined
>   by interaction, not by some declarative features
>   like interests, profiles, communities, etc.
>   Best regards,
>   Alexander.
>   2010/10/6 Caroline Haythornthwaite
>   <haythorn at illinois.edu>
>
>     I have published a social network informed
>     theoretical position on what
>     forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic
>     proposition is that crowds are tied
>     by a coorientation to a subject of common
>     interest, communities are tied by
>     this coorientation, but also heavily by attention
>     to others in the community.
>     Be interested in what you find from your work.
>     This is one version of the
>     idea:
>
>     Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and
>     communities: Light and
>     heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings
>     of the 42nd Hawaii
>     International Conference on System Sciences. Los
>     Alamitos, CA: IEEE
>     Computer Society. Available via the UIUC
>     institutional repository at:
>     https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457.
>
>     I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a
>     community in that sense. Try a
>     dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the
>     internal recognition of others
>     and interaction through reading and commentary on
>     writings. (Re one
>     community within LiveJournal).
>
>     Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of
>     Coterie Publication: Fan
>     Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal.
>     Unpublished doctoral
>     dissertation, University of Illinois.
>
>     /Caroline
>
>     ---- Original message ----
>     >Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400
>     >From: Semenov Alexander
>     <semenoffalex at googlemail.com>
>     >Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community
>     through homophily
>     >To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>     >
>     >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-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
>     >
>     >Graduate Student in Sociology at
>     >State University - Higher School of Economics
>     >http://www.hse.ru/eng
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>     Caroline Haythornthwaite
>
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>
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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
>
>   Graduate Student in Sociology at
>   State University - Higher School of Economics
>   http://www.hse.ru/eng
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