Glad this started working for me, it took a while to get my password reset for some reason.
So far, reading “The Virtual Community” has been an interesting read. Many parts of it leave me without a conclusion but moreso with a lot of information about how these different online communities were started, which is great, but I haven’t come to an informed assessment on what it all means quite yet. The intentions behind every community vary greatly from small ones based on discussion boards to people pushing the PC movement foreword.
I’m excited to start talking with Savannah about what her interests are in what communities she would like to study, I think we can find a good common ground having come from the same prerequisite class last semester that was based on the principle of democracy.
For now, I’m going to keep reading and trying to put together the core ideas of “The Virtual Community”.