I wrote about the ‘goon’ culture of SA breaking into the MMORPG EVE Online, although my argument was more that the community helped to transform the platform rather than vice versa. https://www.academia.edu/29808695/We_play_Something_Awful_Goon_projects_and_... <https://www.academia.edu/29808695/We_play_Something_Awful_Goon_projects_and_pervasive_practice_on_online_games> —Dick Richard J. Page PhD, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa dick@richardjpage.com
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1. Re: Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms (Jonathan Marshall)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:03:30 +0000 From: Jonathan Marshall <Jonathan.Marshall@uts.edu.au> To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms Message-ID: <1487282609731.71231@uts.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
My book Living on Cybermind, to some extent deals with a virtual group that used multiple sites although it focuses on one main site, as I thought it possibly unethical to pursue them everywhere :)
also wrote about problems of online ethnography in "Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture"
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1598
jon
________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of David Brake <davidbrake@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, 17 February 2017 5:26 AM To: AoIR mailing list Subject: [Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms
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.
It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-) -- Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline> _______________________________________________ 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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