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Communities and Online Gaming

Online gaming communities have made it easier for people to communicate and form friendships.

Online gaming communities have made it easier for people to communicate and form friendships in a space where they feel more comfortable as they usually share things in common. However, as online gaming has become more mainstream, some communities have attracted a negative stigma around them and their player base. Introduction: Online gaming has changed the way we interact with people daily. Our lives have been changed since the introduction of social media, gaming and online communities. Read more [...]
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Social Networks

How Facebook Affects Relationship

Abstract Facebook immense influence on individuals cut across all demographic statures, with its impact being felt on various aspects of people’s lives. In line with the impacts that Facebook has on people, this essay expounds on the effect that Facebook has on relationships in general in consideration of concepts such as strong-weak ties, self-presentation, and compression management. Also, the effects it has on the relationship of couples such as jealousy, oversharing on the platform, loss Read more [...]
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Communities and Online Gaming

Digitally evolved: how MMO’s demonstrate the advancement of communities in virtual space

PDF Version:Download Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to prove MMO’s are representative of communities in online spaces, and then to demonstrate how they extend and improve on them. The problem is they are not communities in the tradition sense because proximity has been removed by putting them online. The method is research and arguing the following. The result is not only are they communities they are better. Introduction Although some claim communities cannot exist in virtual Read more [...]
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Social Networks

Pseudonymity Enables Escape To A New Life

This paper will argue that pseudonymous online platforms are superior to those with identity transparency, for people who are high centers of a community yet wish to leave. Here is presented a case study of The Clergy Project, which uses this strategy to offer safe escape from church communities for non-believing clergy members. Read more [...]
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Identity in Communities and Networks

Identity Wars: How the self-presentation of vegan YouTube influencers impacts viewers and the vegan movement.

Abstract Social networking sites have helped improve the way people express themselves and find their identity. They can also be a place for people to join communities, collaborate and promote activist movements such as the vegan movement. Identity among vegan YouTube influencers is very important as there seems to be a fight for status to always be noticed. One of the more popular types of veganism on YouTube is dietary veganism, with influencers focusing on body image and food choices rather Read more [...]
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Communities and Online Gaming

More than a game: Levelling up relationships

Craig Lennard Keywords: Virtual, Community, Multiplayer, Network, Games Abstract: Online gaming is not generally associated with strengthening relationships and developing communities. However, patterns are emerging in research into the field of Online Multiplayer Games (OMG's), suggesting they provide a fertile ground for cultivating relationships and bridging pockets of society separated by age, race, and socioeconomic factors. Games as a focal point attract people providing them with Read more [...]