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Exploring Online Communities: Characteristics, Types, and Benefits

Online communities are networks of individuals sharing common interests and values, interacting regularly in virtual spaces. These communities can take on different forms, exhibiting sociability and locality (both real and imagined). Understanding their structure involves recognizing active subgroups and means of interaction, such as forums and chat rooms. By maximizing member information, sharing, and privacy, online communities offer personalized services. This overview delves into the characteristics, hybrid examples, and the significance of online communities in contemporary social networking.

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Exploring Online Communities: Characteristics, Types, and Benefits

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  1. ONLINE COMMUNITIES According to CMC a community is “a network of people who may or may not share a geographical space, but who have common interests and values and who interact on a reasonably regular basis.” Therefore an online community is a network of people found online that have common interests and interact on a reasonably regular basis.

  2. Introduction • What is a community? • Has different meanings. • Community Characteristics • Sociability – social interaction and shared interests between members of a community • Locality – shared geographical location • Online communities – Real or Imagined?

  3. Online Communities • Imagined communities – all communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact (Anderson) • Real in the sense that they’re meaningful and powerful. • Social networks – one way of describing the structure of network relationships between large groups. • Hybrids – most common Example of online communities: http://www.pebhmong.com/forum http://www.honda-tech.com

  4. MOST ONLINE COMMUNITIES HAVE: • 1. DIFFERENT PATTERNS WITHIN THEM • 2. ACTIVE SUBGROUPS • 3. A MESSAGE BOARD, CHAT ROOM OR FORUM FOR MEMBERS TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER

  5. AS WEB COMMUNITIES SHARE INFORMATION WITH MEMBERS OF SIMILAR INTERESTS THE SOFTWARE THAT SUPPORTS THESE COMMUNITIES SHOULD: • 1. MAXIMIZE MEMBER INFORMATION • 2. MAXIMIZE INFORMATION SHARING • 3. PROVIDE PERSONALIZED SERVICES • 4. PROTECT INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY

  6. HEALTH AND FITNESS COMMUNITY SUBGROUPS SUPPORTING PARTS • 1.WEIGHT LOSS • 2..NUTRITION • 3. FITNESS • 4. MEDICATION • 5. HEALTH TOPICS • 1. NEWSLETTERS • 2. EXPERT ADVISE • 3. DISCUSSION GROUPS • 4. PREGNANCY • 5. SEXUAL HEALTH • 6. BIPOLAR DISORDER

  7. REFERENCES • Chin, A. & Chignell, M. (2007) Identifying active subgroups in online communities.New York N.Y. p.280-283. • McDonald, D. (2007) Visual Conversation Styles in Web Communities.dwmc@u.washington.edu • Muhlestein, D & SeungJin Lim (2007) A Common Interest Share Model for On-line Peer Communities. Washington D.C. p. 83-88 • Ohtani, T & Case,S. (2003) Personalisation and Web Communities. BT Technology Journal Vol. 21 p. 91-97 • Thurlow, Crispin, Laura Lengel and Alice Tomic. (2004) Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and The Internet. p. 107-117

  8. Questions • What is an online community? • A social network of online users with shared goals and having regular contact in a virtual community. • What are hybrid examples of a community? • Traditional communities that are finding ways to maximize member interactions by forming online communities.

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