[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Catherine Summerhayes]

Hi David!

have a look at Robert Ackland's work

best wishes

Catherine


Dr Catherine Summerhayes

Film and New Media Studies

School of Literature Languages and Linguistics

College of Arts and Social Sciences

Australian National University

Ph. +61 2 612 52704

https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/summerhayes-cf


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Dear all,

I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest?

> I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg, Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct community.

It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-)
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Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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