Hi David it might be useful to have (yet another) look at Usenet's culture. While technically not on different platforms different newsgroups often developed quite different cultures. Good introduction to Usenet (shameless plug):
From Usenet to CoWebs Interacting with Social Information Spaces http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781852335328
Cheers Christopher On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:26 AM, 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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