Emile, Are you only interested in asynchronistic online community formations such as Yahoo! news groups or mailing lists? Or are you also considering chat rooms on IRC, AOL, and even ICUII? If you are interested in chat rooms, I discuss the birth of an online community on IRC in my book, Getting It On Online. The study focuses on three gay-male chat rooms on IRC and, to an extent, their historical development. Notably, one of the chat rooms -- #gaymusclebears -- came into existence when a group of individuals chatting on #gaymuscle felt that the existing community did not adequately reflect their erotic ideals. You could also look at the proliferation of web-sites speaking to ever more specific identities. For instance, there has been an explosion of web-sites oriented towards the gay-male "bear" phenomenon (see Bear411.com), and more recently, a growing number of web-sites that speak to a distinct subcultural group within the "bear community" known as "musclebears" (see BigMuscleBears.com or BeefyBoyz.com). Many of these sites include various chat functions and internal messaging services for members and could be identified as vibrate online communities. Very best, John Campbell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radhika Gajjala" <radhika@cyberdiva.org> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Birth of virtual communities You could find moderators of various lists (past and still existing) and get lots of narrative data about this sort of things. and then you could find the participants of those lists - narrow it down to a few lists of your interest though or you will be overwhelmed by the volume of what you get ;-) r
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for examples of virtual communities that gave bearth to other virtual communities. I mean that the members of one virtual community (a mailing-list for instance) decided to have two virtual communities instead of one. The first one is about a subject and the second one is about another subject (linked to the first one, more specific, for instance).
Have you ever heard of cases like this?
Many thanks.
Regards,
Emilie Marquois-Ogez
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