Showing posts with label community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Community Rx: Add two friends twice a day. Preferably before meals

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.