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@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@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
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On Feb 16, 2017, at 1:26 PM, David Brake <davidbrake@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.
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