05-04-2012, 01:13 PM
online community
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Introduction
An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted number of people can initiate posts, such as Weblogs. Online communities have also become a supplemental form of communication between people who know each other primarily in real life.
Classifying Online Communities
A number of authors have looked at classifying online communities and those within them to better understand how they are structured. It has been argued that the technical aspects of online communities, such as whether pages can be created and edited by many, as is the case with Wikipedia, or whether only certain users can post entries and edit them, as is the case with most weblogs, can place specific online communities into types of genre.
Membership life cycle for online communities
Amy Jo Kim's membership lifecycle states that members of online communities begin their life in a community as visitors, or lurkers. After breaking through a barrier, people become novices and participate in community life. After contributing for a sustained period of time they become regulars. If they break through another barrier they become leaders, and once they have contributed to the community for some time they become elders.
Motivations and barriers to contributing to online communities
Successful online communities motivate online participation. Several research studies have investigated methods of motivating participation in online communities.
CONCLUSIONS
By now the reader will agree to it that online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content. There are some factors mentioned in the paragraph that makes it hard for the government to achieve online community. After reading this you might feel that the government running a community is too much like hard work. You may decide not bother at all. However, that would be a mistake.