Online Communities

Gustavo S. Mesch

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-32933-8_15

Online Communities

Gustavo S. Mesch

Department of Sociology

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Abstract

Access to and use of information and communication technologies have expanded rapidly. This circumstance has focused academic attention and interest in social groups that are not bounded in a specific geographic place and for which well-documented evidence exists of social interaction and involvement among individuals who in many cases have never met face to face.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	227-242
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32933-8_15
State	Published - 2007

Publication series

Name	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
ISSN (Print)	1389-6903
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-839X

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2008, Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.

Keywords

Community Formation
Computer Mediate Communication
Online Community
Social Support
Virtual Community

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Psychology (miscellaneous)
Social Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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