The Online Community Emergence(notes)

• Computer mediated communication(CMC) was first made for organizational reasons in the work field.
• Many internet users invest strong feelings in these ways of communication.
• Social aggregations that emerge form the Net when people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships.” -Rheingold
• All these online communities have similarities for the users. Most of the people are on these communities for the same reasons.
• If the people in these sub communities are all a part of the same thing,(same organization or same university) The online relationship will stay stronger.
• The temporal structure of CMC is either synchronistic or asynchronistic
  • Synchronistic: All participants are online simultaneously and read and respond to each other.
  • Asynchronistic: Participants do not need to be online simultaneously and can read and respond at later times.
• CMC’s are typically anonymous but given time, people are given online personalities and identities.
• People in these CMC’s develop relationships and become friends on different platforms.