[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Barbara Ley]

Oh, and more thing. The 2007 piece looks at how members of a support group
left one web-based discussion forum and formed a new online support group
on a different web-based forum. The 2011 piece looks at how the latter
group eventually moved beyond the web-based discussion forum to also
connect via social media, blogs, and mobile phones.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Barbara Ley <bley at udel.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> Nathaniel Poor, PhD
>> http://github.com/natpoor <http://github.com/natpoor>
>> http://natpoor.blogspot.com <http://natpoor.blogspot.com/>
>> http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ <http://sites.google.com/site/
>> natpoor/>
>> http://www.underwood-institute.org <http://underwood-institute.org/>
>>
>> > 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” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
>> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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Barbara L. Ley, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Department of Women and Gender Studies
University of Delaware
250 Pearson Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 824-4186
Fax: (302) 831-1892
Email: bley at udel.edu
Pronouns: She/her/hers