[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Alexia Maddox - The promise and pitfalls of virtual community as an analytical model

[Nilma Perera]

(apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ...


PRESENTER:  Alexia Maddox

TITLE: The promise and pitfalls of virtual community as an analytical model


VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street,
Carlton

DATE and TIME: Friday 19th September  2008, 3-4 pm
 

ABSTRACT:
Virtual community is a widely used concept to document and design for social
clustering in online environments. Grounded literature in this area has
proliferated exponentially in the last 10 years with the increasing rate of
the technological development of social platform, but the characteristics
and generating features of virtual community remain patchy and unclear. This
presentation will discuss the digital social phenomena surrounding virtual
community and online sociability. In doing so, it will describe the
foundations, features and pitfalls of the variety of approaches to be found
in the literature.

 
BIO:
Alexia is in the final year of her PhD on modeling a spatially distributed
interest network. The presentation is linked to the introductory section of
her thesis. Comments and feedback will be most welcome.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm
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 Nilma Perera
 PhD Candidate 
 Interaction Design Group
 Department of Information Systems
 The University of Melbourne
 VIC 3010


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