[Air-L] Virtual community building and maintenance in the social media age

[Luis Fernandez Luque]

Dear all,

I am very glad to help. My expertise is in the health domain.

I think this is quite nice paper (http://www.jmir.org/2013/6/e119/).

The health domain is quite tricky because motivations change a lot across
disease and health problems.

I did several studies in harmful communities that work (aka promoting
anorexia as lifestyle). You learn more from bad examples than positive. Let
me know if you want more health examples.

Regards

Luis Fernandez-Luque

On 13 Oct 2016 4:55 a.m., "David Brake" <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I will be teaching a course next semester on virtual community building
> and management, blending theory and practice. A few years ago, I felt
> pretty confident that I could put together a reading list of books on
> virtual community management and be comfortable it would cover what is
> needed. But that was before social media. Now (depending on the purpose of
> a virtual community itself) I might not even recommend a website-based
> virtual community at all – for all of the vexed issues of platform
> ownership, a Facebook group or even Twitter hashtag might be a better
> solution for some groups. Are you aware of any good books and articles
> (preferably academic but not necessarily) which bring virtual community
> advice up-to-date to take into consideration managing virtual communities
> spread across multiple platforms, some of which a virtual community manager
> has no direct control over?
>
> The books I am currently considering teaching from are:
>
> Kim, A. J. (2000). Community building on the Web. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit
> Press.
> Powazek, D. M. (2002). Design for community: the art of connecting real
> people in virtual places. Indianapolis, Ind.: New Riders.
> O'Keefe, P. (2008). Managing online forums: everything you need to know to
> create and run successful community discussion boards. New York: AMACOM.
> Bacon, J. (2012). The art of community: Building the new age of
> participation (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Retrieved
> from http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/ <http://www.
> artofcommunityonline.org/>
> Kraut, R. E., Resnick, P., & Kiesler, S. (2012). Building successful
> online communities evidence-based social design. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
> Press.
>
> I am also considering:
>
> Howard, T.W. (2010). Design to thrive: Creating social networks and online
> communities that last. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann
>
> He talks about social networks vs online communities but seems to suggest
> they are mutually exclusive while I would say you can layer an online
> community on top of a social network or use the latter to bring people into
> the former.
>
> Anyway, I am keen either to find a book that properly takes the new social
> media options into account when talking about virtual community or at least
> a book or article that gestures towards the existing conventional wisdom
> and suggests what the new social media can add.
>
> I will happily feed back to the list or interested people the curated list
> that results...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> David
> --
> Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media”
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