Online communities background Community is an odd and rich term in the world of Internet public life. Like many key conception of the social sciences, it has specific and rigid meaning for scholars, and broader connotation when it is used in the information technology language. According to Christian Crumlish, an online community or virtual community "is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet" (Crumlish, p...
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According to Christian Crumlish, an online community or virtual community "is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet" (Crumlish, p. 142). By this definition of the online community, the Internet is the term behind the internationally connected computers that link the people all around the world into online discussions by using the great CMC (Computer-Mediated Communications) technology...
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