Back to category: Technology Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Sense of Community in Web Environment Sense of Communityin Web Environment Master's thesis April 2001 Apostolou Georgio Abstract The study of social phenomena in the World Wide Web has been rather fragmentary, and there is no coherent, reseach-based theory about sense of community in Web environment. Sense of community means part of one's self-concept that has to do with perceiving oneself belonging to, and feeling affinity to a certain social grouping. The present study aimed to find evidence for sense of community in Web environment, and specifically find out what the most critical psychological factors of sense of community would be. Based on known characteristics of real life communities and sense of community, and few occational studies of Web-communities, it was hypothesized that the following factors would be the most critical ones and that they could be grouped as prerequisites, facilitators and consequences of sense of community... Posted by: Margaret Rowden Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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