[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Barbara Ley]

Hi,

I wrote a book chapter about this in 2011 called "Beyond Discussion Forums:
The Transmediated Culture of an Online Pregnancy and Mothering Group." It's
in the book Motherhood Online, edited by Michelle Moravec.

The chapter was a follow-up essay to a 2007 journal article I wrote called
"Vive Les Roses!: The Architecture of Commitment in an Online Pregnancy and
Mothering Group." (JCMC)

Best,

Barbara

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> David-
>
> Celia Pearce’s book looks at a game community where the game shut down,
> and how they dispersed to other platforms, trying to maintain and re-build
> their original community:
> Pearce, C. (2009). Communities of play. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
>
> I think that’s where she uses the term latitudinal studies, which is
> great, directly addressing the issue you raise (people use more than one
> online space, so researchers have to look widely across spaces).
>
> I also have a paper looking at how an in-game community fell apart in the
> game where it initially formed but mostly stayed connected across different
> platforms:
> Poor, N., & Skoric, M. M. (2014). Death of a guild, birth of a network:
> Online community ties within and beyond code. Games and Culture, 9(3),
> 182–202. http://doi.org/10.1177/1555412014537401
>
> Hopefully there are some useful cites to and from those pieces as well.
>
> HTH,
> -Nat
>
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>
> > On Feb 16, 2017, at 1:26 PM, David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 ;-)
> > --
> > 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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