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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Annamari Martinviita <martinviita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Studying online community
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:18:28 -0400 (EDT)
Jon Marshall wrote an extended ethnography a few years ago on Cybermind, an email list I began with Michael Current, in 1994. It's been running since then; Marshall was a participant both online and offline (in a 1996 Cybermind Conference in Perth, and in various fleshmeets as we called them, in Sydney). I'd check out Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication, and Control, 2007. - Aalan On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Annamari Martinviita wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm just getting started on my PhD studies, unfunded as yet, regarding new > social technologies and online communities and would really appreciate any > hints, tips and advice members of this list may have on good information > sources, relevant publications, events and so on. > > Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how communities extend from the online to > the offline and vice versa, how participation in online communities becomes > part of every-day life, how the lines between offline and online > communication and relationship building are blurred as access to online > social tools becomes ubiquitous. More specifically, I am looking at how new > social technologies affect local communities and what developers should take > into consideration while creating new tools with a view of fostering online > community. I hope to come up with results that offer an insight into how the > concept of community is changing for members of a hyper-connected society, > and the implications of that change for local communities. My research > approach is ethnographic. > > It would be great to hear from others with similar interests, and also > perhaps to discover fellow "sufferers" at similar stages of their academic > careers, for a bit of mutual support and encouragement. :) Of course, any > advice would be hugely appreciated! > > Best regards, > > Annamari Martinviita > PhD student > University of Oulu, Finland > martinvi@mail.student.oulu.fi _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ 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 Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/