The presentation topic is Self.Org I: Online Communities. Our group will base on Howard Rheingold’s “The Virtual Community”. The presentation will be divided into two parts. First, we will summarize Rheingold’s point of view about the virtual community in very early stage. After that, we will introduce popular virtual community nowadays, Facebook.
In the first part, we will talk about the new form of human social life, virtual community. According to Rheingold’s experience, his sharing is about the use of WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), so we will examine how the virtual life related to the relationship in real life. Then, we will also focus on the features and impact of virtual community.
In the second part, we will take Facebook as a case study to examine the present virtual community. Referring the Rheingold, the establishment of relationship in virtual reality will be discussed.
All in all, we agree the positive influences of virtual community, but we would still like mention the problem caused in virtual community.
In the first part, we will talk about the new form of human social life, virtual community. According to Rheingold’s experience, his sharing is about the use of WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link), so we will examine how the virtual life related to the relationship in real life. Then, we will also focus on the features and impact of virtual community.
In the second part, we will take Facebook as a case study to examine the present virtual community. Referring the Rheingold, the establishment of relationship in virtual reality will be discussed.
All in all, we agree the positive influences of virtual community, but we would still like mention the problem caused in virtual community.
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After presentation, I found that our group should add more examples to illustrate the concept of online community, such as MSN and online games. The presentation will be much clear and will not overlap with other group presenting the same topic.
Nevertheless, it gave us more space to discuss our example, Facebook, deeply. Our classmates discussed the positive and negative sides of using Facebook. Positively, people could easily find their old school friends and form a online community, so it helped to build relationship in real life. However, Facebook is not just for finding friends, people become the carriers of advertisement. Even, when people play the mental quiz in Facebook, the result turns to the preference of well-known brand. This kind of promotion might weaken people’s intention to register the appliance, it does not help to build the relationship. Therefore, it is important to aware the purpose of the tool and how we use it to fulfill our own purpose.
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