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Identity in Communities and Networks

The Hallyu Community and the Identities Within Them

This essay is based around the communities and identities formed within and around South Korean pop culture Read more [...]
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Communities and Web 2.0 Social Networks

How Web 2.0 has altered the way sports fans can congregate online, allowing for the formation of communities

Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate the engagement between users on the micro-blogging platform Twitter leads to the integration of online communities. It will be focusing primarily on the communities surrounding NBA (National Basketball Association) fans and how by facilitating conversation within online communities, it can also create a toxicity between fans, teams and athletes. Introduction: Web 2.0 has revolutionized the way users' access and utilize the internet, with advancements Read more [...]
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Communities and Web 2.0

Incels: How Online Communities Can Create Pathways to Self-Radicalisation

Abstract: Technological transformations have allowed the practice of community to shift to online spaces. The many affordances of this such as access to diverse information and resources online communities can provide escape from constraints surrounding kinship, location, and occupation can counter tendencies to form intolerant communities. However, the Incel community online is an example of how the formation of insular and ideologically homogenous communities can still occur in online spaces. Read more [...]
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Identity in Communities and Networks

Branding and Identity Construction Through Online Communities

Abstract: Social media platform users aiming to project authentic representations of themselves, however on online communities, social media users follow the branding principles as companies to execute carefully constructed online identities. Through the discussion of the principles of company brand formation, the lucidity of identity construction, company and brand identity, self-branding through online communities like Tinder, nature of social identification, and online company communities on Read more [...]
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Communities and Web 2.0

Instagram encourages new communities and allows localised communities to extend beyond the constraints of time and space

The rise of Web 2.0 and the phenomenon of social media has enabled new and local communities to thrive and stay connected through the presence of the internet. In the twenty-first century we are able to ‘share’ more than ever, and through the capabilities of Web 2.0, internet users have become both consumers and producers in our digital age. Technology is further embedded into our lives everyday and we rely on it heavily to maintain our relationships online (Hampton & Wellman, 2018). Web Read more [...]
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Identity in Communities and Networks

Identity built unknowingly online: Ambient awareness building a user’s identity from online social communities.

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore, what is ambient awareness and how does ambient awareness build a persona of ourselves for our online and offline social communities? How is an online community formed and is the user’s true identity demonstrated online? INTRODUCTION The introduction of Web 2.0 saw a new era on the World Wide Web, one of user generated content, collaboration and the ability to interact, communicate and have a social presence online. Social networking sites were launched, Read more [...]
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Communities and Web 2.0 Identity in Communities and Networks Social Networks

Online Communities network in employment-oriented service

Introduction The development of World Wide Web has introduced new possibilities on how people interacting. The development of the world wide web has affected what seems to be just an imagination of how the world wide web represents turn out to come true. The world wide web has evolved from web 1.0 to web 2.0. The changes from this development have changed the performance of how we interact on daily activities that are available on the online platform. The institutions of Web 2.0 and 3.0 have Read more [...]