[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Jonathan Marshall]

My book Living on Cybermind, to some extent deals with a virtual group that used multiple sites although it focuses on one main site, as I thought it possibly unethical to pursue them everywhere :)

also wrote about problems of online ethnography in "Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture"

http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1598

jon

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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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