Online communities

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Online communities

• By Anne Bjørnseth

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Online communities

• Does participating in online communties affect
  your daily life?
• Family or worklife
• What about language or conduct?
• Focus
• online community
• sociality
• social navigation
• technology and media

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Progress1) litterature

• Books and articles
• J.Preece Online communities
• Dieberger et al Social Navigation techniques
  for building more usable systems
• M.S.Evensen Chatter, sjekker og studerer..
• Kelly et al Designing for improved social
  responsibility, user participation and content in
  on-line communities

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Progress1) litterature

• Websites
• ABC-startsiden.no
• Bokkilden.no
• D.Chandler Technological or Media Determinism
• E-guiden seks byggesteiner i et nettsamfunn
• etterOljen.no
• Facebook.com
• Google.com
• Wikipedia.org

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Progress,2) fieldwork

• Experience
• Case 1 ego - centret
• Newbee in online community,
• practical experience
• Interview
• Case 2 woman, 35y, singelparent
• Case 3 boy, teenager, student

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Progress,2) analysis and 3) conclusion

• Does theory and practice fit?
• What did I learn?
• Did i come to another conclusion, did I change my
  mind?

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Online communities, consept

• Wikipedia
• A virtual community or online community is a
  group of people that primarily or initially
  communicate or interact via the Internet, rather
  than face to face. Online communities have also
  become a supplemental form of communication
  between people who know each other in real life.

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Online communities, consept

• J, Preece (200210)
• People, who interact socially as they strive to
  satisfy their own needs or perform special roles,
  such as leading or moderating
• A shared purpose, such as interest, need,
  information exchange or service that provides a
  reason for the community
• Policies, in he form of tacit assumptios,
  rituals, protocols, rules and laws that guide
  peoples interactions
• Computer systems, to support and mediate social
  interaction and facilitate a sense of
  togetherness.

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Online communities, what, why and how

• To communicate and interact on the net
• Can the technology change society?
• Technologial determisnism
• Reification
• Significant socio-technical change has resulted
  from the proliferation of Internet-based social
  networks. (Wikipedia)

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Online communities, Sociality

• Social navigation and trust
• Using community data for increased social
  conssiousness, participation and navigability

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Online communities, fieldwork, case 1

• Facebook.com!
• Experience
• Fun
• Timetaking (stealing)

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Online communities, fieldwork, case 2 and 3

• Woman 35 years, singelparent for a boy of 5
  years. Teacher.
• Boy 17 years. College Student

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Online communities, theory and practice

• Preeces four elements
• Community data
• Social navigation
• Reification
• Age and experience
• (Figure next page)

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Illustration
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Conclusion

• Changed behavour and / or conduct?
• Did I change my opinion?