Nils, I've found the following useful: Matzat, U. (2004): "Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for Theoretical-Empirical Internet Research," Analyse & Kritik, 26, 63-90. The author doesn't provide a comprehensive typology of online fora, but focuses on a key issue: the conditions under which an online group can be considered to be an online community. Rob -- ------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ackland Fellow and Masters Coordinator Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University e-mail: robert.ackland@anu.edu.au homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php project: http://voson.anu.edu.au ph./fax: +61 2 6125 0312/+61 2 6125 2992 mail: Coombs Building, 9 Canberra, ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php ------------------------------------- Nils Löber wrote:
Dear list members,
in the course of researching for my master's thesis on image board culture (think 4chan, LOLcats, Rickrolling etc.) I have been trying to find literature describing a typology of internet forums and forum-like precursors (BBSes/USENET/...) with respect to formal properties such as moderated vs. unmoderated, anonymous vs. pseudonymous vs. real names, distributed vs. centralized and so on.
Even though I put quite some effort into finding literature, I couldn't find anything even closely approaching a comprehensive overview/typology. In fact, the wikipedia article on internet forums was as close as I came.
Can anyone here help me out and point me to relevant sources? Many thanks in advance!
Best regards Nils Loeber _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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