Social Communities? More case studies...

Greetings all!

For those on campus it's week 1 of our look at social communities, whilst for OUA students, it's already week two (fewer breaks!) So, I thought I'd let everyone know what is already out there:




Stanley Carter



Stan uses his blog to take a critical look at social networking tools. As always, comments welcome..



Mai Kato



Mai takes on Friendster, including some interesting background on the beginnings of social networking software.



Seik Kun Chia



'J' claims it is the individual perspective which determines whether MSN Messenger constitutes a genuine community.



Desloehal Djumrianti (yanti)



Yanti looks at tribe.net, an online ad-driven portal which seems to want to be everything to everybody.



Muhamad Akbar



Muhamad uses an interactive slideshow to discuss Kaskus.com, a localised Indonesian discussion board.



Also, a couple of 'community of interest' projects that didn't make the last post:



Igor Palmer



Igor looks at AOK, (The Association of Knowledgework)



and...



Michael Bennet



Michael discusses the emotional investment that music brings to a community on his WebCT student homepage - Net 24 students won't be able to view this :-(



Finally, for those still working on thier 'communities at play' project, Trevor has started up a blog that looks at online gaming (with a clear explanation of what all those gaming acronyms mean)




Please take the time to comment on these projects as it is this feedback which drives the learning in this course. Also, keep an eye on the other blogs to see new projects as they are published...they are coming thick and fast!



This guy walks into a bar - Ouch!