Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project

Submitted by Ted Takacs on Fri, 12/24/2004 - 12:59.

Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the
Julie/Julia Project

Anita Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community

Researchers, practitioners, and the media have used
the term virtual community to refer to vastly different computer-mediated
communication (CMC) groups. EBay, a soap opera newsgroup, The WELL, a website
for wristwatch enthusiasts, and more have all been referred to as virtual
communities (Baym, 1995; Boyd, 2002; Rheingold, 1993; Rothaermel & Sugiyama,
2001). Should blogs be considered virtual communities, too?

To answer this question, we must understand,
first, why virtual communities are considered important, and, second, what
the characteristics of a virtual community are. Then, we must determine if
at least some blogs have these characteristics.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/blogs_as_virtual.html

 

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Communities need to create

Submitted by theNewScapeGoat on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 04:35.

Communities need to create their own local "internets" (not connected to the www). I predict that the www will simply become too large, too cut-throat, and too bogged down by consumer driven garbage to be of much use in the near future. The "internet" is already going underground, and that means it will stay ahead of the uncreative people trying to "control" everything going in and out. Good article, made me think!