In Amy Bruckman's "A New Perspective on 'Community' and its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems," she offers a prototype-based perspective in defining a community. A perspective which, rather than labeling a "community" by its collocation or rules of inclusion and exclusion, are defined based on their similarities and differences in "focal" members. These focal members are the determining factor when categorizing community members or prototypes.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
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