Online communities

Plant, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2003.10.005

Cited by 92 publications

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“…First, online deliberative interactions offer excellent opportunities for knowledge sharing and long-term community building (Cindio and Schuler 2007;Plant 2004). Second, public consultations often devise innovative policy designs that experts alone would not have developed (Innes and Booher 2003).…”

Section: Democratic Experience and Online Consultationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Web 2.0 Tools for Online Public Consultation

Steibel

Estévez

2015

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

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Public consultation is a formal mechanism of social participation where government invites citizens to participate in policymaking. Increasingly, public consultations are being held online, where Web 2.0 tools and other information and communication technology (ICT) tools become central to understand the design of virtual spaces for government-citizen interaction. Through the analysis of two case studies from Brazil-the "Gabinete Digital" and the "Marco Civil Regulatório" initiativesthis chapter discusses how online public consultation spaces are designed, using a combination of ICTs. Based on three frameworks of deliberative theory and characteristics of Web 2.0 tools, the aim of our paper is studying what aspects of Web 2.0 tools are useful for online consultation and what democratic environments they might generate when combined. The main contribution of this work is raising awareness on how the usage of certain Web 2.0 tools can reinforce or diminish some attributes of political communication and therefore, as a result, produce different models of online democratic communication.

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Section: Democratic Experience and Online Consultationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Web 2.0 Tools for Online Public Consultation

Steibel

Estévez

2015

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

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“…VCoPs may use different methods to select their members (Plant, 2004;Wenger & Snyder, 2000). An on-line community usually has an open membership whereby anyone who has access to a computer and an Internet connection can become a member and participate (e.g., an Internet community).…”

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Towards a Typology of Virtual Communities of Practice

Dubé¹,

Bourhis²,

Jacob³

2006

IJIKM

230

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The literature is packed with "one-size-fits-all" advice on how to develop intentionally formed virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). However, a closer look at the literature shows that VCoPs often have unique "personalities." Based on an extensive review of the literature and a study of 18 VCoPs, we built a typology containing 21 structuring characteristics. We then used this typology and three of the studied VCoPs to show how different their basic natures are. Researchers and practitioners alike must not only recognize the diversity of VCoPs, but also identify challenges, strategies and practices that are contingent upon their specific characteristics.

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“…3 Participants, journalists and other onlookers may have a vague sense of partaking in or witnessing the activism, the sharing of jokes and memes, and the creation of subcultures more generally through social media, but as these are not formal membership-based organizations, drawing strict boundaries around them is difficult. To offer an impression of what these subcultures do, we collected a set of hashtags specific to each community (such as #thanksgivingwithblackfamilies, #feminism, #myasianamericanstory) to represent its interests and participants.…”

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How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news

Freelon¹,

Lopez²,

Clark³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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People have been forming communities using digital communication technologies since long before the web as we know it today. Social media are only the latest in a long series of digital forums that have enabled global conversations and connections around nearly any topic imaginable. With its emphasis on public accessibility and real-time content production, Twitter has become a major hub for communities of all types and sizes. The issues and voices of people of color and women have attracted much attention from professional journalists over the past few years. Yet many such individuals have criticized journalists’ portrayals and coverage of issues that are important to them. In response, some participants have assumed the role of news creators and distributors, focusing on their communities’ particular concerns. Understanding these emerging social subcultures will allow more accurate portrayals of diverse communities and yield insights for better journalistic engagement in the digital age.

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Online communities

Cited by 92 publications

References 26 publications

Designing Web 2.0 Tools for Online Public Consultation

Designing Web 2.0 Tools for Online Public Consultation

Towards a Typology of Virtual Communities of Practice

How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news

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