Archive for the 'Communities Online' Category
References
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Adida, B. (2007) Privacy vs. Omnipotence, Mashups and your browser [Internet]. Benlog, Harvard. Available from: <http://benlog.com/articles/2007/12/04/privacy-vs-omnipotence-mashups-and-your-browser/> [Accessed 5 December 2007]
Bales, R. F. (1970) Personality and Interpersonal Behaviour. New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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What a bargain!
The face of the web marketing is changing. Users are becoming blind to conventional advertising (though my Grandfather still believes it when it says his screen tells him “You win the prize for being the 10 millionth visitor!”). Companies are realising the need to utilise its members in order to generate more sales. A great [...]
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Tags: Advertising, beacon, forums, privacy
The end of Internet privacy?
Every time you log onto the Internet, your actions are being logged and someone (or something) is making use of your online habits.
One site which profits from this technology is Amazon. Unless it is a first visit, every time you log on to Amazon you will be presented with recommended products for purchase. Amazon collect [...]
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Tags: amazon, beacon, facebook, privacy
Politics and the web
In the US, politicians have long since been making use of the web as a key tool to encourage people to vote. Slowly, but surely, this trend is making its way across the water. Indeed, in a recent list published by ‘Short List Magazine’ Issue 22 on November 22nd, politics came out 7th in the [...]
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Tags: blog, politics
Communities within organisations
When considering all the types of communities that exist, often the most obvious are over looked. This very software upon which this blog is written, for example, has a community of web developers behind it.
In this article I will look at the role of communities within organisations. There are various types which can be utilised [...]
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Tags: Intranet, organisation, university, work
Analysing community interaction
In 1970, R. F. Bales released a book titled ‘Personality and Interpersonal Behaviour’. It dealt with the communication patterns between a group of people. This has since been used to analyse online communities using what is commonly known as Bales’ Interaction Process Analysis (or IPA). IPA contains 12 different categories which can be used to [...]
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Tags: bales, Interaction, Social Networking
Who do you think you are?
In the early days of the WWW, nobody wanted to be anonymous. The whole point of Internet based communities was to interact with people who you would not normally meet and share your life experiences. These days, the trend has shifted and many now use the Internet as a way of hiding away from their [...]
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Tags: anonymity, blogs
Sorry, I think I misunderstood
Anyone who has spent time using message boards or social networking will be fairly familiar with the concept of being misunderstood. We can often try our hardest to put forward a well structured argument, only for another user to turn it around and take it as something totally different.
As an administrator of a forum myself [...]
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Tags: misunderstood, sarcasm, smiley
Me, Myself and Communities
Thank you for stopping by. My name is Peter Willis, a student (and webmaster, but I’ll get to that shortly!) at Leeds Metropolitan University in the final year of a degree studying Web Media Management. As part of my final year I am currently doing a module looking at online communities.
When we talk about online [...]
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Tags: community, peter willis, shouting
