{"id":61,"date":"2003-07-01T20:19:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-06-13T20:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:53:56","slug":"sense-of-virtual-community-in-listservs-and-newsgroups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2003\/07\/01\/sense-of-virtual-community-in-listservs-and-newsgroups\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of Virtual Community in Listservs and Newsgroups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dr.   Anita Blanchard<br \/>\nUNC Charlotte<br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\nJuly 1, 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\nThe term \u201cvirtual community\u201d can be used to describe any group of  people who interact through computer communication (e.g., email,  Usenet  newsgroups).\u00a0 However, are they truly \u201ccommunities\u201d in the traditional  meaning?\u00a0 One way to determine if virtual communities are like  traditional communities is to examine their sense of community, their  feelings of belonging, attachment and identity with each other.\u00a0 Sense  of community has been called one of the essential components of a  traditional community and researchers believe that virtual communities  also experience a sense of community.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe purpose of this research is to determine if active  listservs and  newsgroups experience a sense of community.\u00a0 Particularly, it examines  how feelings of community in virtual groups compare to traditional  face-to-face communities.\u00a0 In addition, it examines what leads to the  feelings of community that members experience. \u00a0It is hypothesized that  the following factors contribute to virtual groups\u2019 sense of community:<\/p>\n<p>Participating in exchange of support in the group (i.e., asking and answering questions)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Observing exchange of support in the group<\/li>\n<li>Knowing norms of behavior (i.e., what is appropriate behavior in the group)<\/li>\n<li>Participating in sanctioning (i.e., correcting  inappropriate behavior)<\/li>\n<li>Observing sanctioning<\/li>\n<li>Creating an identity in the group<\/li>\n<li>Learning other member\u2019s identities<\/li>\n<li>Trusting other members<\/li>\n<li>Believing that group members meet face-to-face<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, it is hypothesized that members of different activity  levels (e.g., lurkers vs. highly active members) have different senses  of community and that different factors contribute to their sense of  community.\u00a0 For example, active members may have a stronger relationship  between participating in the exchange of support and sense of community  whereas lurkers would have a stronger relationship between observing  exchange of support and sense of community. \u00a0Figure 1 graphically  depicts the model tested in this research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anita Blanchard UNC Charlotte Department of Psychology July 1, 2003 Introduction The term \u201cvirtual community\u201d can be used to describe any group of people who interact through computer communication (e.g., email, Usenet newsgroups).\u00a0 However, are they truly \u201ccommunities\u201d in the traditional meaning?\u00a0 One way to determine if virtual communities are like traditional communities is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67nDP-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65,"url":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2003\/10\/07\/blogs-a-new-form-of-virtual-community\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"Blogs: A new form of Virtual Community?","author":"clas-web","date":"October 7, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Preliminary Analysis Anita Blanchard, Ph.D. October 7, 2003 In July 2003, readers of the Julie\/Julia Project participated in an on-line survey. 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