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Communities and Web 2.0

Strengthening Online Music Communities with Web 2.0 and Social Media

Regan McVeigh13 Comments

Regan McVeigh Abstract This paper identifies that Web 2.0 affordances and social media sites are useful tools for musicians and fans to build and maintain thriving music communities. It explores seven articles which provide evidence that online communities can exist, and that musicians are using them successfully to benefit their careers and their fan base.… Continue reading Strengthening Online Music Communities with Web 2.0 and Social Media

Social Networks

What role did social media play in the Christchurch massacre?

Mary Farrell29 Comments

The Internet once represented an advancement in global democracy where the opportunity to share knowledge was no longer bound by limitations of personal experience. Instead, we have been siloed into our preconceived biases and ideology while social network algorithms create echo chambers that can result in extremist behaviours. A consideration of social medias role and responsibility in the Christchurch massacre.

Identity in Communities and Networks

Life is a Performance: Facebook, Self-Representation and Self-Esteem

Lana Galea27 Comments

Abstract This paper argues that idealistic self-presentations on Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook risk damaging other users’ self-esteem by portraying and disseminating unrealistic personas, ideals and lifestyles and thereby triggering upward social comparisons. Using the concept of identity as a performance, as coined by Goffman (1959), this paper explores the opportunities for identity… Continue reading Life is a Performance: Facebook, Self-Representation and Self-Esteem

Communities and Web 2.0

AFL Players: Adjusting to life as a professional footballer and how inappropriate behaviour spreads via Web 2.0

Marcus Smith2 Comments

Abstract Web 2.0 technologies such as social media platforms have allowed AFL players to interact, communicate and impact upon the daily lives of fans. This will be discussed by exploring what Web 2.0 is and how it used by AFL players today. It was found that the high pressure of playing AFL and the lack… Continue reading AFL Players: Adjusting to life as a professional footballer and how inappropriate behaviour spreads via Web 2.0

Social Networks

Online communities, echo chambers and the anti-vaccine movement.

David Poiner52 Comments

Keywords DCNC_2019, DCNC, Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest, Twitter, Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Vax, Echo Chambers, Confirmation bias, Elective exposure theory, Bias assimilation, Targeted advertising, Online freedom, World Health Organisation, WHO, Social networks, Online communities. Abstract In the first few months of 2019 a large amount of attention has been drawn to the roles that social media giants… Continue reading Online communities, echo chambers and the anti-vaccine movement.