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Friday, December 03, 2004
After reading a paper I found online I ask myself: Should the definition of community be based on a sense of area or just on the sense of belonging? Trying to define community based on the sense of area means that you would look for the things that the people have in common, whereas basing on the feeling of belonging would push the definition of community in the arms of the user (instead of the spectator) that could give a series of reasons why he/she would participate in the given community. in the case of EverQuest communities one could wonder how people can belong to so many communities at the same time (classcommunity, racec community etc.) but the user/participant might feel that these "sub"communities are all part of the same domain, so it feels like being member of one community. This is enforced by the fact that many participants are members of more than one "sub"community. *** - | posted by Tommy on 8:53 AM ---ooo--- |
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