Formation Of Virtual Communities Research Articles

Pengaruh Media Sosial terhadap Pola Interaksi Kelompok Masyarakat

The use of social media has become an integral part of the lives of modern societies, significantly changing the way individuals and groups interact. Social media improves connectivity and access to information, facilitates the formation of virtual communities, and expands social networks. However, these changes also have negative impacts, such as disruption of face-to-face interaction and polarization in community groups. The type of research used is qualitative research using the literature study method or literature can be interpreted as a series of activities related to the method of collecting library data, reading and recording and processing research materials that use books, journals and other literature as the main object. The main source of this research data is research articles published in the last 10 years through the google scholar website. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively consisting of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawn. The results show that social media provides convenience in interacting and accessing information, but also poses challenges such as polarization, inaccurate information dissemination, and disruption in face-to-face interactions.

Cinema and the Digital Revolution: The Representations of Digital Culture in Films

This article examines popular cinema’s interactions with digital culture, focusing on cinema and social structure. A product of technological and social developments, digital culture has introduced the creation of cyberspace, the emergence and spread of social media, and the formation of virtual communities. This article focuses on a specific period (1980 – 2010) to examine the evolution in cinema of portrayals of digital culture. The analysis includes four influential films: WarGames (1983, by John Badham), Perfect Blue (1997, by Satoshi Kon), Pulse (2001, by Kiroshi Kurosawa), and Life in a Day (2011, by Kevin Macdonald, Loressa Clisby, and Tegan Bukowski). The article provides a guide to popular cinema's interaction with and use of the possibilities offered by digital culture, revealing how the four selected films reflect digital culture themes. Each film demonstrates different aspects and dynamics of digital culture at a particular time, offering a unique look at that period's social and technological landscape through its portrayal of technological developments, human relations, cultural values, and social norms. Each film evaluates the impact of the digitization process on cinema from different perspectives, depicting how cinema adapts and responds to technological changes.

Tindak Tutur Ekspresif dalam Komentar Youtube kanal Nihongo Mantappu episode “AKHIRNYA LULUS KULIAH! WISUDA WASEDA UNIVERSITY”

A study on expressive speech acts in YouTube channel comments can provide valuable insights into various aspects of online interactions, such as community formation, negotiation of meaning, and expression of identity. The objective of this study is to describe the different forms and functions of expressive speech acts in the comments section of the YouTube video entitled "AKHIRNYA LULUS WISUDA! WISUDA WASEDA UNIVERSITY" on the Nihongo Mantappu channel. This video was posted in April 2022. The study employed a qualitative research design with a pragmatic approach to analyze the comments and identify the different expressive speech acts utilized by netizens. Three primary forms of expressive speech acts were identified in the comment section of Nihongo Mantappu's YouTube account: praising or expressing admiration, offering congratulations, and expressing gratitude towards others for their contributions. Overall, the study concluded that expressive speech acts play a significant role in online interactions and contribute to the formation of virtual communities.

The Influence of the Internet on the Formation of Virtual Communities and Expansion of Boundaries of Civil Society during the Large-Scale War with the Russian Federation

The purpose of the article is to study the social impact of the use of e-communications on the state of civil society of Ukraine in the conditions of a large-scale war against the Russian Federation. To achieve the goal, the author substantiated the political component of the introduction of e-communications, features, specificity and differences of territorial and virtual communities of GS, determined ways to counter the negative effects of the manipulative mechanisms of the aggressor country. The article uses statistical, comparative, monitoring methods, systemic and functional methodological approaches. The author proves that the development of e-communications is a prerequisite for changes in the activities of organizations, communities and politicians which is becoming more and more transparent and must meet the expectations of the increasingly active HS. Changes are taking place in state and non-state bodies, providing access to them, increasing transparency, increasing the opportunity for citizens to participate in the decision-making process, etc. Politics largely depends on the opinion of citizens, their communities and organizations. Political power is becoming more decentralized, and there are more and more centers of power. The Internet leads to its decentralization, to the formation of a model of a new type of democracy, thanks to convergent processes between representative and direct democracy. Citizens are getting more and more information in real time and decisions about politics and politicians are coming in real time. Support for Internet messaging technologies increases opportunities for citizens to directly participate in politics. Analysis of unifying and network features of a new type of e-democracy and other characteristics, with which it is connected – protest and anti-system movements, are transformed in the direction of "smart communities" or "smart crowds", because their actions are implemented simultaneously in virtual and real space.

Ilustrando el aprendizaje de vocabulario a través de los sitios web educativos

Introducción The web is a great medium of communication and is well suited to shorter documents with lots of links. The Web is not good for very long documents that need to present an ever-evolving argument. Some of the Internet technologies for the development and use of Websites are grouped in Web 2.0 tools. Which are a set of interaction mechanisms with visitors to a website where programmers offer new services on the sites, achieving greater interactivity to enable the formation of virtual communities. Educaplay is a platform for the creation of multimedia educational activities, characterized by attractive and professional results. Is aimed at creating a community of users with a vocation to learn and teach while having fun. The platform provides various possibilities for teaching professionals to install their own online educational space on the platform, where everyone can take classes to another level of participation. In addition, this application allows teachers to create different types of multimedia and interactive activities with educational orientation, through different scenarios such as Riddles, Complete, Crossword, Dialogue, Dictation, Order letters, Order words, Test. Objetivos To identify the importance of Educational Websites (Educaplay) for teaching vocabulary. Método The research was important to take into account and consider the different types of resources such as technical, technological, and human. Technical resources, books, articles, and online theses from the Universidad Técnica de Ambato repository, among others, were used to obtain the necessary information and guide the research. On the other hand, to apply the first variable were used some technological resources like computers, smartphones, and Educational websites (Educaplay). Then, to measure the second variable the Reading and Writing Part of Flyers Cambridge exam was chosen . Finally, in terms of human resources, there were 22 students from Unidad Educativa Sagrada Familia in 9th grade “A” of EGB, of which 12 students were women and 10 were men. This research was also based on a qualitative approach. It was qualitative because a series of interventions and observation techniques were carried out on the Educational Websites (Educaplay) and the influence on vocabulary teaching. Principales resultados The test that was applied consists of 3 parts. The first part comprised a dialogue between two people in which students completed multiple selection questions. The second part was about a gap-fill activity in which students chose an appropriate word to complete sentences. The third part featured a variety of sentences in which students had to read and choose the appropriate word that defines it. The rubric used allowed the students to obtain a score of 2.5 out of 2.5 points, for parts 1 and 2, on the other hand, in part 3 the students were able to obtain a score of 5 points. The student could obtain a maximum score of 10 points at the end of the test. For the analysis and interpretation of the results, a series of tables and graphs were prepared, which allowed a better understanding. These tables show the average result of each part that was evaluated in both the pre-test and the post-test. Conclusiones The use of this educational website (Educaplay) contributed to the development of abilities and skills, achieving a better understanding of vocabulary. The vocabulary level of students was reflected in the pre-test (A2 Flyers) taken at the beginning of the process. The overall percentage obtained was 5.23 out of 10 points which means that they had a medium level. This evidenced that the students had shortcomings in their vocabulary, they could not identify the meaning of some words that were unknown to them and that at their level they should have known. The results of the post-test were obtained to later infer that the use of educational websites for the English language had a significant impact on student’s learning. The percentage that students obtained was 9.59. As it can be seen, the score was high and that means that they improved their vocabulary level. Therefore, the use of educational websites is an important factor in the development of vocabulary skills in students.

Generalized Jaccard Similarity Based Recurrent DNN for Virtualizing Social Network Communities

In social data analytics, Virtual Community (VC) detection is a primary challenge in discovering user relationships and enhancing social recommendations. VC formation is used for personal interaction between communities. But the usual methods didn’t find the Suspicious Behaviour (SB) needed to make a VC. The Generalized Jaccard Suspicious Behavior Similarity-based Recurrent Deep Neural Network Classification and Ranking (GJSBS-RDNNCR) Model addresses these issues. The GJSBS-RDNNCR model comprises four layers for VC formation in Social Networks (SN). In the GJSBS-RDNNCR model, the SN is given as an input at the input layer. After that, the User’s Behaviors (UB) are extracted in the first Hidden Layer (HL), and the Generalized Jaccard Similarity coefficient calculates the similarity value at the second HL based on the SB. In the third HL, the similarity values are examined, and SB tendency is classified using the Activation Function (AF) in the Output Layer (OL). Finally, the ranking process is performed with classified users in SN and their SB. Results analysis is performed with metrics such as Classification Accuracy (CA), Time Complexity (TC), and False Positive Rate (FPR). The experimental setup considers 250 tweet users from the dataset to identify the SBs of users.

The Role of Content Creators and Interpersonal Interaction in the Formation of Virtual Communities

Bu çalışmanın amacı, sanal toplulukların oluşmasında içerik üreticilerinin ve bireyler arası etkileşimin rolünü ortaya koymaktır. Covid-19 salgını tedbirleri kapsamında, sosyal yaşamın fiziki olarak kısıtlanması, bireylerin sosyal yaşam aktivitelerinin bir kısmını sanal ortamda gerçekleştirmelerine yol açmıştır. Bu dönemde özellikle YouTube içerik üreticileri, “Benimle” başlığı taşıyan videolar yayınlayarak, izleyicilerine evde kalma çağrısında bulunmuştur. İçerik üreticileri yemek yapmak, oyun oynamak gibi gündelik yaşam aktivitelerini kayıt altına alarak, izleyicilerinden aktiviteleri sanal ortamda birlikte yapmalarını istemiştir. İzleyiciler, içerik üreticilerinin videoları eşliğinde, bu aktiviteleri gerçekleştirirken aynı zamanda yorumlar kısmında aktiviteye katılan diğer kişiler ile etkileşime girmektedir. Türkiye’de de Covid 19 salgını tedbirleri kapsamında, eğitim-öğretimin Mart 2020 döneminden itibaren uzaktan olmasına karar verilmiştir. Bu dönemde, YouTube’da yayınlanan “Benimle Ders Çalış” başlıklı videoların hem yüklenme sayısında hem de izlenme sayısında artış yaşanmıştır. Bu çalışmada da Mart 2020 döneminde YouTube’da yayınlanan, 500.000’nin üzerinde izlenen “Benimle Ders Çalış” başlıklı iki videoya ait izleyici yorumları, sanal toplulukların oluşması bağlamında, içerik analizi yöntemiyle incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın kavramsal zemini, Howard Rheingold’un “sanal topluluk” ve Henry Jenkins’in “katılımcı kültür” kavramlarına dayanmaktadır. Bu araştırma ile içerik üreticilerinin ve bireyler arası etkileşimin sanal topluluğun oluşmasında etkin rolleri olduğu ortaya konulmuştur. Ayrıca araştırma sonuçları, “Benimle” videolarının, izleyicilerin içerik üreticilerine yönelik parasosyal ilişki geliştirmelerini sağladığını göstermiştir.

MOTIF DAN KEPUASAN KOMUNITAS ACID PADA MEDIA SOSIAL DISCORD SEBAGAI SARANA PEMENUHAN KEBUTUHAN INFORMASI

Computer Mediated Communication encourages the formation of virtual communities in the new media era. The shift in communication patterns to become more effective and efficient is one of the advantages that can be felt through the presence of the Internet in the daily life of its users. Discord as the main medium for exchanging information for members of the Indonesian Autoclutch community, specifically discusses sim racing or virtual racing which is in great demand by various social, economic, and age groups. Thus, the existence of Discord as a means of fulfilling information needs that has been used by more than 100 million users every month is interesting to be studied further. This study aims to analyze Discord as a medium for meeting the information needs of the ACID community using Uses and Gratifications Theory. The methodology used in this study is based on the positivistic paradigm, through a quantitative approach, with an explanatory type, using measuring tools in the form of a questionnaire, simple correlation analysis data analysis techniques, and Discrepancy Theory to see a comparison between motives and satisfaction obtained. The results showed that there was a moderate level of satisfaction with a percentage of 82%.

Syntactic Specificity of Internet Discourse Language

Although internet communication is a relatively new field of social relations in this article, it can cover the whole of humanity in a short time, which raises a number of issues such as communication system on the Internet, user interaction, formation of virtual community, how a person expresses himself, speech influence thought about.

Phenomenological model of information operation in social networking services

<span>In modern conditions, social networking services have become the users’ leading channel of communication, which are called actors. Therefore, social networking services are used by intruders to gain benefits in the information space of virtual communities for further influence on political and social processes in the state. In the article the phenomenological model of information operation in social networking services is developed. The model allows to take into account the processes of development of social networking services through the formation of new relationships between actors and the formation of virtual communities. At the same time, </span><span>behind the model are the processes of degradation of social networking services that are associated with the dissipation of content. The developed model is used for experimental research of real information operation in social networking services. The obtained results will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of counteracting the threats to information security of </span><span>the state in social networking services by the relevant departments.</span>

The Formation of Traditional Music and Regional Pop Music Community in Popular Social Media

Traditional music and regional pop music are two music genres in Pahang. Both music genres provide the cultural meanings to the Pahang people. They have shared similar characteristics consisting of traditional elements inherited from the past. Quatrains of pantun and Malay traditional proverbs are adopted as sung texts in both music genres. Interestingly, the implementation of Pahang spoken language (Pahang dialect), one of the Malay dialects in Peninsula Malaysia, is an additional characteristic of regional pop music. Both music genres incorporate tradition and modern elements of tempo, melody and music structure. In both music genres, the combinations of modern and traditional musical instruments are used. Music practitioners, Roslan Madun and vocal groups Anok Semantan represent traditional and regional pop, respectively. To investigate community formation through the genres, there methodological components are used: participant-observation, interviewing and textual analysis. The findings suggest that community in traditional music (in this regard, syair songs) is formed through syair concert, and the formation of virtual community in media social of Facebook as continuity of the concert community. Regional pop music, on the other hand, forms the community on the popular music web of YouTube. The findings also expose different in attitudes, motivations and practices between traditional and regional pop communities.

Binomial Regressive Influence Behavior Ranking for Virtual Community Formation in Social Network

Binomial Regressive Influence Behavior Ranking for Virtual Community Formation in Social Network

Communication, learning and assessment: Exploring the dimensions of the digital learning environment

Advances in technology make it possible to supplement in-person teaching activities with digital learning, use electronic records in patient care, and communicate through social media. This relatively new “digital learning environment” has changed how medical trainees learn, participate in patient care, are assessed, and provide feedback. Communication has changed with the use of digital health records, the evolution of interdisciplinary and interprofessional communication, and the emergence of social media. Learning has evolved with the proliferation of online tools such as apps, blogs, podcasts, and wikis, and the formation of virtual communities. Assessment of learners has progressed due to the increasing amounts of data being collected and analyzed. Digital technologies have also enhanced learning in resource-poor environments by making resources and expertise more accessible. While digital technology offers benefits to learners, the teachers, and health care systems, there are concerns regarding the ownership, privacy, safety, and management of patient and learner data. We highlight selected themes in the domains of digital communication, digital learning resources, and digital assessment and close by providing practical recommendations for the integration of digital technology into education, with the aim of maximizing its benefits while reducing risks.

Investigating the role of urban spaces in reduction of digital divide between citizens

The information and communication technologies and their ever expanding and development have transformed all the basic concepts of human life, including the collective life of humans in urban spaces. Now these technologies have caused gradual and sometimes sudden changes in the concepts of space, so that, along with urban spaces, we are witnessing the creation of virtual environments with a wide variety of inclusive activities. This phenomenon led to the formation of virtual communities with a metropolitan state and the virtual universe formation in parallel with the real world. One of the implications of dual spatial and globalization for life of human beings is the creation of a crisis called the digital divide, which is associated with individualism, the reduction of social interactions levels, reducing collective life in the city's social spaces. The present study is carried out aimed to explain the role and capabilities of urban spaces on reducing the individuality of the crisis and promoting interactive levels and social integration. For this purpose, in the research process, three methods of environmental mapping, observation of behavior and interview with users in the Bam-e Tehran Recreational Complex have been used. The results showed that cyberspace is not considered as a substitute for physical space and serves as a complement to complete the social functions of urban spaces. Therefore, the creation of smart environments in this urban space and the creation of a hybrid space of physical and cyberspace, called the cyber park, will lead to an ever-increasing active presence of citizens and the promotion of levels of social interaction and ultimately reduce the digital divide among citizens.

Virtual Communities of Police Service Support: Providing SWOT Model in Line with the Order and Security

Nowadays by formation of virtual communities, people support public services by sharing their own information and experiences. This article used the information of a Persian website in which the question and answer cycle takes place. In this research was used content validity. This research was utilized participant observation methods and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Results suggest that people offer solutions for problems of each other regarding police services, order and security. They also transfer their knowledge without any benefit and only intrinsic motivation explains such behavior.

The role of individual-social-technology fit in online social network value development: an empirical study

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to reveal the role of individual–social–technology fit in online social network (OSN) value development. The social software features (e.g. communication and interaction), social features (e.g. privacy and trust) and individual features (e.g. sense of belonging and self-disclosure) are considered fitting forms to describe the OSN value. Implications and suggestions are addressed. Design/methodology/approach – The literature review on social software, the social and individual characteristics and the research gap with respect to OSN value is presented. The research arguments are then hypothesized, and research model used to describe the proposed role is examined empirically. The research targeted mobile phone users as the subjects, and the extent of the activities of these users on OSN for both work and studies. A salient investigation explores the moderation effect of gender. The research results are obtained, and the findings are revealed on the basis of 468 social software users. Findings – The significant effect of individual–social–technology fit on OSN value development is presented through the satisfaction of both participation and sharing information, and knowledge about this fit is verified. The interplay of social software, social and individual features contributes significantly to individual–social–technology fit development, implying that OSN value development is not a single issue. OSN value development should be considered concurrently with technological, personal and social issues. Research limitations/implications – The empirical study confirms that fitness analysis produces a systematic outcome, in which all elements (e.g. social, technology and individual) are required to cooperate with one another to maximize the OSN value. An individual adopts online channels to communicate with others; thus, the benefits may be a multidimensional issue instead of only a single information service issue. They also consider building an equal social relationship to be important, as it enables diverse propositions, maintains acceptable privacy and behaves on faith to enhance the fit of technology features and individual features to value development. The subjects also likely accepted the fact that emotion generation is important for the advantage of fit of technology features and social features, thereby likely benefitting OSN value development. Originality/value – The OSN does not only add new values to the society but also brings new effects on social development, especially in terms of social cognition from virtual community formation, development and creation. Although existing studies in the literature present the important aspects and antecedents linked significantly to OSN value development, these studies also insufficiently discuss the effect of fit of these facets on OSN value development. This exploratory study mainly aims to propose and examine the individual–social–technology fit model through an empirical investigation. The main argument of the study is that when a positive and healthy virtual society is developed through social software, the individual and social characteristics, as well as the social software features, should be defined with a suitable fit to promote the social networking value.

The CrossFit Sensorium: Visuality, Affect and Immersive Sport

By contrast to the competitive and participatory models of sport, the immersive model (Heywood 2006, 2008) shows greater potentiality as a healthful practice more distant from transcendent, technocratic aspects of other models, instead accepting the body's immanence as part of evolutionary history and the natural world. Because of the largely unconscious, evolutionarily based responses to one's environment, the environment in which a sporting activity takes place has a tangible impact on performance. As our most evolutionarily recent sense system, visuality is linked to the Social Engagement System (Porges 2011). The mediated experience of sport through visual culture might catalyse the Social Engagement System and the perception that the sporting activity is communal and welcoming. Particularly the subculture surrounding the sport of CrossFit, which spread almost entirely through website presence and the posting of videos of workouts on the mainsite, might be said to exemplify how growth in new sports is augmented by visuality and the formation of virtual communities that then become embodied.

Automatic Event Scheduling in Mobile Social Network Communities

Mobile social network (MoSoN) signifies an emerging area in the social computing research built on top of the mobile communications and wireless networking. It allows virtual community formation among like minded users to share data and to organize collaborative social activities at commonly agreed upon places and times. Such an activity scheduling in real-time is non-trivial as it requires tracing multiple users' profiles, preferences, and other spatio-temporal contexts, like location, and availability. Inherent conflicts among users regarding choices of places and time slots further complicates unanimous decision making. In this paper, we propose an autonomic system for activity scheduling in MoSoN communities. Our system allows flexible activity proposition while efficiently handling the user conflicts. As evident from our simulation and testbed results and analysis, our system can schedule multiple simultaneous activities in real-time while incurring low message and time cost.

Virtual communities? The Middle East revolutions at the Guardian forum: Comment Is Free

We investigate the possibility of virtual community formation in an online social network under a rapid increase of activity of members and newcomers. The evolution is studied of the activity of online users at the Guardian - Comment Is Free forum - covering topics related to the Middle East turmoil during the period of 1st of January 2010 to the 28th of March 2011. Despite a threefold upsurge of forum users and the formation of a giant component, the main network characteristics, i.e. degree and weight distribution and clustering coefficient, remained almost unchanged.

Striking a Balance between Property and Personality: The Case of the Avatars

Virtual worlds, as powerful social platforms of intense human interaction, gather millions of users worldwide, producing massive economies of their own, giving rise to the birth of complex social relationships and the formation of virtual communities. By enabling the creativity of the player and figuring as an outstanding example of new online collaborative environments, virtual worlds emerge as context
 for creation, allowing for users to undertake a digital alter-ego and 
 become artists, creators and authors. Nevertheless, such digital egos are not merely creations, but a reflex of their creators, an extension of their personalities and indicia of their identities. As a result, this paper perceives the avatar not only as a property item (avatar as the player’s or [game-developer’s] property) but also, and simultaneously, as a reflex of our personality and identity (avatar as the projection of one self in the virtual domain, as part of an individual persona). Bearing in mind such hybrid configuration, and looking at the disputes over property rights in virtual words, this essay makes three fundamental arguments.
 
 Firstly, it proposes a re-interpretation of intellectual property rights 
 (namely of copyright law) according to its underlying utilitarian principles, as such principles seem to have been forgotten or neglected in the sphere of virtual worlds. The idea is to re-balance the uneven relationship between game owners and players perpetuated by the end-user license agreements (EULAs), recognising property rights to users over their own virtual creations. In order to evaluate whether a user’s contribution to the virtual world amounts to an original and creative work and is worthy of copyright protection, the essay proposes the image of a jigsaw puzzle as a tool and criteria to carry out such examination.
 
 Secondly, the author states that the utilitarian theoretical 
 justification for intellectual property rights does not account for all the dimensions and aspects involved in the user/avatar relationship, namely for the personal attachment and the process of self-identification the former develops toward the latter. In order to fill such lacuna, the author resorts to Margaret Jane Radin’s Theory of “Property for Personhood.” In this context, Radin’s theory is deemed to be successful in capturing the personal attachment users develop with their avatars, recognizing such characters not merely as property interests, but as personal and intimate connections to one’s sense of self. Furthermore, such theoretical perspective reinforces the convergence of both property and personality dimensions upon the figure avatar, a key feature of this character.
 
 Thirdly, the author argues in favor of granting users with virtual 
 property rights over avatars, drawing from Fairfield’s theory of virtual property, but justifying such entitlement in light of Radin’s theory of “Property for Personhood.” By articulating a hierarchy of stronger and weaker property entitlements in terms of their relationship to personhood (through the image of a continuum from fungible to personal), Radin’s theory is indicated as particularly suitable to resolve property rights disputes between game owners and users. Such understanding is based upon the conceptualization of the avatar as personal property, which, according to the “Property for Personhood” thesis, merits stronger legal protection than fungible property.
 
 Finally, by combining Property for Personhood theory with the 
 Utilitarian one, the paper advocates a more “ecumenical” view in the articulation of the different property theories, refuting the generalized prejudice of perceiving them as rival and incompatible perspectives.