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The lifestream this week has been almost entirely made up of comments and readings for my ethnography and those of my colleagues. The ethnographies were all fabulous and led me to really think about communities in a new way. They were necessarily short because of the time constraints but this was not too restirctive because as [...] Looking back at this mini ethnography and Bankeyfields in general I had one aim in mind, to find evidence that this virtual comminity actually acted together as a community. I was slightly biased as this is a physical community I already knew so I was aware of the prominent physical community already in place. Looking [...] My ethnography project can be found here! http://www.sarahpayne.co.uk/ethnography.html Are the members of this community authentic in their responses in an ethnographic sense. The first step is to explore what we mean by authentic. Hine (2000) questions whether non face-to-face interactions can truly be trusted because the ethnographer cannot confirm what they are told about the real lives of the participants. However an important consideration [...] Hi Carrie Sorry about the delay, it’s been a work week from hell. Any way, the easy things first. Signed up users: 195 Unique users a day on average: Day, Date, Page Loads, Unique Visitors, First Time Visitors, Returning Visitors Wednesday, 4th November 2009, 342, 203, 148, 55 Tuesday, 3rd November 2009, 299, 152, 106, 46 Monday, 2nd November 2009, [...] Bankeyfields users are very much a supportive group. Support for one another is essentail as it builds upon the feeling of belonging to a community. The users support for one another is apparent in the way that there is a shared concern for each other and the communities well being. Not only does Bankeyfields raise [...] Participants in this particular forum have constructed a sense of community in their online environmnet. It may be said that this was in fact inevitable as they are already an established community. BUT, the postings to this forum simply strengthen their sense of community, physical and virtual. Bell (2001) talks about the emergance of social codes [...] “When people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal feeling” (Rheingold, 1993) First of all, looking at the Bankeyfields site overall it markets itself as “Tunstalls community website”. It has the aim of inviting local people to discuss neighbourhood issues, blog, post or read [...] Like everyone else I am spending most of my time focused on my ethnography research. I have had dilemmas about what questions to ask of my research, how to go about it and how to present it. My conclusion has been to focus on 3 main questions that can sensibly answered in the time allowed [...] “Words on a screen are quite capable of…creating a community from a collection of strangers” Millions of people now engage in the computer medited social groups know as virtual communities. Many of these virtual groups give constant snap shots of peoples everyday lives in the form of things like tweets, status [...] |
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