Online Communities organise themselves because they slowly discover who, what, they really are. It also answer why you are here or why your specific topic is useful or essential. How does it become essential and When would it essential.
By having an online community, you share info across the world which holds certain interest of what you enjoy. People can (other users) can comment and give guidance upon what your general questions are.
Having Online Communities also minimise the area of confusion. This is simply by discussing and sharing knowledge amongst others. They can compliment and add on different perspectives, on your topic and by doing so it helps generate others strategies and ideas to overcome.
Online communities generally improve personal knowledge. It specifys a brief answer and can expand and grow into a term that could be use scholarly. And of course scholary term is educational as well as making big budget with the knowledge applied.
Overall you share, you learn, you improve, you discover and understand yourself more, along with other people interested in your specific topic.
By having an online community, you share info across the world which holds certain interest of what you enjoy. People can (other users) can comment and give guidance upon what your general questions are.
Having Online Communities also minimise the area of confusion. This is simply by discussing and sharing knowledge amongst others. They can compliment and add on different perspectives, on your topic and by doing so it helps generate others strategies and ideas to overcome.
Online communities generally improve personal knowledge. It specifys a brief answer and can expand and grow into a term that could be use scholarly. And of course scholary term is educational as well as making big budget with the knowledge applied.
Overall you share, you learn, you improve, you discover and understand yourself more, along with other people interested in your specific topic.
3 comments:
Interesting post!
I like the idea you have used, online communities collaborating information which helps to avoid confusion. This comes back to academic research and taking information from a number of resources to make your information reliable.
For data to remain reliable what rules do you think might need to be applied to promote a larger active user to join the online community?
Derek,
Undoubtedly online communities offer a new and wonderful platform for global communication. However your post seems to neglect the downsides that also come as a result of these features. Bowker and Gray suggest that ‘…internet and social networking sites have become the new preying grounds for pedophiles and other child sexual offenders’ (2004, 20-21). In addition to this research shows, ‘young users are not only finding their way onto the site but are also posting personal and sexual material which some researchers suggest may potentially increase the risk of enticing child predators’ (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 2006; Bremer & Rauch, 1998).
Now I understand that you, like most of us that social networking sites, such as MySpace, Xanga and Facebook, have become almost overnight phenomena and are attracting young people by the millions (Bausch & Han, 2006), and I believe that being able to make and meet new friends is important in a young persons development. But in keeping with the tradition of wanting to hear both sides of the story, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the negatives of online communities also.
Please feel free to post a comment on my blog also. Sasha.
http://atrueunderstanding.blogspot.com/
I appreciated this blog for its conciseness, briefness and directness. A very thorough, clear explanation of how and why online communities develop and grow. However, I would have liked to see more of YOUR perspective here - a bit more exploration and analysis, rather than straight explanation perhaps.
In the lecture Axel outlined both the advantages and benefits of online communities. Your post seems to solely discuss communities in their IDEAL form. In my opinion, your post would be strengthened if you outlined some of the negative aspects and possible tendencies of online communities, for example, their potential to be insular, or 'echo chambers' (Axel, 2008). I am interested in hearing your thoughts on the negative aspects of online communities.
When does information become scholarly? You said 'an answer can expand and grow into a term that could be used scholarly.' Do you think evolving information circulating within and through a community is always reliable? How are we to judge the validity of information? Your post could have moved in this direction, going on to explore how communities evaluate quality, which I feel would have been a natural and interesting progression.
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