This essay is based around the communities and identities formed within and around South Korean pop culture Read more [...]
Tag: Online 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]