I'm like a kid at Christmas right now ( Read more... )

'Trolls" are one of the most stifling things in a community like this if they are not handled well. Now the first question is, what is a troll. A troll is a person who is looking to cause trouble. In the strictest psychological terms they are exhibiting psychopathic behavior. But that isn't always clear black or white but more a matter of degree. I ( Read more... )

The profit motive ( Read more... )

One of the first posters in this community brought up the subject of dead communities. You can read the comments here. There were a couple interesting statements:

"it seems like a lot of people view communities kinda like watching a show on television. Somebody else is the producer, and they are the consumer, as opposed to the way in which a real ( Read more... )

I have just changed the info page of the community to better reflect my own thoughts which seem to be supported by those still interested in this community, that it should be more a place of open discussion rather than heavy academic study. While academic views and links are welcome, the focus on academics has stifled the free flow of thought that ( Read more... )

When I started this forum it was the first of its kind, an online community to discuss and study the psychological and sociological aspects of online communities. I started it because it was something that interested me so I began writing about it in my own journal. There were so many people who took an interest in those posts that I began looking ( Read more... )

I've just come across an epic case of the internet, LJ in particular, changing a person's behaviour and enforcing social/moral standards ( Read more... )

Hello everybody ( Read more... )

Please make posts here in English only. Sorry for my limited language skills but I can only moderate the forum in my own language. If you post in Russian I have no way of knowing if it is a fine, intellectual post or spam selling cocaine to school children.

Thank you
the management

Hi all, I am new here and have a question. For my dissertation I plan to recruit participants (for interviews) via the internet. The group I am studying is diffuse and there are rarely local groups but tons of online activity--blogs, listservs, LiveJournal, etc. So the internet is the best way to access my population, but then the systematic nature ( Read more... )