Virtual community
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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. Many means are used in social software separately or in combination, including text-based chat rooms and forums that use voice, video text or avatars. Significant socio-technical change may have resulted from the proliferation of such Internet-based social networks.
See also
- Clan (computer gaming)
- Commons-based peer production
- Digital altruism
- Immersion (virtual reality)
- Internet activism
- Learner generated context
- List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users
- Mass collaboration
- Network of practice
- Online community manager
- Online deliberation
- Online ethnography
- Online research community
- Professional network service
- Social media
- Social web
- Support groups
- Video game culture
