CCT395H5 Lecture : CCT 396 - January 9th, 2013.doc

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT395H5
• Professor: Rhonda Mc Ewen

Document Summary

Virtural communities: virtual communities in their simplest form represent. Convergence: virtual communities are characterized by: shared interests, they are based on geography, they involved the exchange of text, voice, images in these ongoing discursive communities. Participants in virtual communities: participants and the communities themselves can ideally function as forums for the open sharing and exchange of info, virtual communites can act as emotional support as well. Blanchard some what goes on to imply that we construct what we want to (ideally anyways) in real life so it is definitely a real experience just as much as a virtual world is as well. Sociality is a part of the information practice: social activity regardless of how trivial they can be in virtual. Environments are used to exchange information and that information sharing is fundamentally a social at. Information sharing the use and sharing of information: funny enough communication is not included within the definition above of information sharing .