AOIR: I am working on a project in which I am looking at several activism websites that were the home of a great deal of communication (bbs, chats, etc.) for a period of a few years, but whose activity has since dwindled to nothing. This despite the fact that the organization they were so boldly against still exists and still operates as it always has. My guess at this stage of the project is that I will use current community/identity research as a way to explain this phenomenon, but I wanted to throw this out to the list: Is anyone aware of instances in which this research has been used as I intend it? And/or are there other approaches you may be aware of that I am missing and which would better inform my paper? Your help is appreciated. Ralph Siddall ralph-siddall@uiowa.edu Ralph W. Siddall The University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies Department of Rhetoric (319) 335-0178