Virtual Community online community or e-community

Map Branches

• What is it?
  • group of people that primarily interact via communication media
    • depend upon social interaction and exchange between users online.
• Membership life cycle
  • visitors or lurkers
  • novices: participate in the community life
  • regulars
  • leaders
  • elders
  • Lave and Wenger
    • peripheral
    • inbound
    • insider
    • boundary
    • outboud
• benefits
  • ability to interact with like-minded individuals instantaneously from anywhere on the globe.
• negative points
  • too much time in virtual communities may have negative repercussions on real-world interaction
  • hunting grounds for online criminals
• Medium
  • a computer network
• Origin of the word "virtual community"
  • the term virtual community is attributed to the book of the same title by Howard Rheingold, published in 1993.

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