Death/Migration of an online community
Hi everyone Yesterday, the owner of a large online fan community that I'm on the fringes of announced that he was closing the site, and this has caused a lot of uproar as the membership (41,000, with 16,000 active posters) are dealing with the news and looking at what to do next). It'll make a fascinating study to look at how the community deals with the transition, but I was wondering about the permissions involved for such research: the forum rules state posters' words are their own and can't be reproduced without their permission, which is fine, but in such cases where there's a site owner, is it best practice, or even essential, to go to them first and then ask the posters? (The same is likely to apply to the forums they migrate to) Thanks Ruth
Ruth, if you haven't already discovered them, you might find some value ethics-wise in the following: Bruckman, A. (2006). Teaching Students to Study Online Communities Ethically. Journal of Information Ethics, 15(2), 82-98. Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (2004). " Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20(2), 127-139. ~Warren On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:47 AM, ruth <ruth@ruthdeller.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone
Yesterday, the owner of a large online fan community that I'm on the fringes of announced that he was closing the site, and this has caused a lot of uproar as the membership (41,000, with 16,000 active posters) are dealing with the news and looking at what to do next). It'll make a fascinating study to look at how the community deals with the transition, but I was wondering about the permissions involved for such research: the forum rules state posters' words are their own and can't be reproduced without their permission, which is fine, but in such cases where there's a site owner, is it best practice, or even essential, to go to them first and then ask the posters?
(The same is likely to apply to the forums they migrate to)
Thanks
Ruth
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I have my students read Derek Powazek's chapter on Killing a Community, which is a nice read from a practitioner's perspective. Derek On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Warren Allen <wsa25@drexel.edu> wrote:
Ruth, if you haven't already discovered them, you might find some value ethics-wise in the following:
Bruckman, A. (2006). Teaching Students to Study Online Communities Ethically. Journal of Information Ethics, 15(2), 82-98.
Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (2004). " Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20(2), 127-139.
~Warren
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:47 AM, ruth <ruth@ruthdeller.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone
Yesterday, the owner of a large online fan community that I'm on the fringes of announced that he was closing the site, and this has caused a lot of uproar as the membership (41,000, with 16,000 active posters) are dealing with the news and looking at what to do next). It'll make a fascinating study to look at how the community deals with the transition, but I was wondering about the permissions involved for such research: the forum rules state posters' words are their own and can't be reproduced without their permission, which is fine, but in such cases where there's a site owner, is it best practice, or even essential, to go to them first and then ask the posters?
(The same is likely to apply to the forums they migrate to)
Thanks
Ruth
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hi all, I'd also recommend Celia Pearce's work on the community that surrounded Uru, the brief-lived MMO based on the Myst world. When those servers shut down she tracked the 'homeless' community in their quest to find a new place to stay and their feelings about the changes that occurred. Here's one link to some of her work on the topic: http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~cpearce3/PearcePubs/PearceSP-Final.pdf<http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/%7Ecpearce3/PearcePubs/PearceSP-Final.pdf> . Also, the work of Anthony Papargyris and Angeliki Poulymenakou in a recent issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research investigates a guild that was in another MMO that shut down (Earth & Beyond), and what happened when they switched to a new virtual world: http://www.jvwresearch.org/v1n3_papargyris_poulymenakou.html best, Mia On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Derek Hansen <shakmatt@gmail.com> wrote:
I have my students read Derek Powazek's chapter on Killing a Community, which is a nice read from a practitioner's perspective.
Derek
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Warren Allen <wsa25@drexel.edu> wrote:
Ruth, if you haven't already discovered them, you might find some value ethics-wise in the following:
Bruckman, A. (2006). Teaching Students to Study Online Communities Ethically. Journal of Information Ethics, 15(2), 82-98.
Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (2004). " Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The Information Society, 20(2), 127-139.
~Warren
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:47 AM, ruth <ruth@ruthdeller.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone
Yesterday, the owner of a large online fan community that I'm on the fringes of announced that he was closing the site, and this has caused a lot of uproar as the membership (41,000, with 16,000 active posters) are dealing with the news and looking at what to do next). It'll make a fascinating study to look at how the community deals with the
transition,
but I was wondering about the permissions involved for such research: the forum rules state posters' words are their own and can't be reproduced without their permission, which is fine, but in such cases where there's a site owner, is it best practice, or even essential, to go to them first and then ask the posters?
(The same is likely to apply to the forums they migrate to)
Thanks
Ruth
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Dear All: Below is the link to an article my colleague- Babak Rahimi- and I have written on the politics of facebook in Iran: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/the-politics-of-facebook-in-iran Best, elham gheytanchi Santa Monica College
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