The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: characteristics and processes

By Anita L. Blanchard, M. Markus. DATB, 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Building Member Attachment in Online Communities: Applying Theories of Group Identity and Interpersonal Bonds (2012, background): “We thus posit that increased attachment in an online community, whatever the source of that attachment, will lead to a set of visible behaviors such as longer duration of membership, more frequent visits, and more active participation (Blanchard and Markus 2004, Ren et al. 2007).”
Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities (2007, background): “Self-presentation is a process to communicate one’s identity, helping others form a more sophisticated and accurate understanding of “Who am I?” After observing an online sport community, Blanchard and Markus (2004) point out the importance of forming online identity through features such as signatu”
Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success (2017, background): “…goal (Jones, Ravid, & Rafaeli, 2004; von Krogh, Spaeth, & Lakhani, 2003), feel they have a positive and measurable impact on the final output (Blanchard & Markus, 2004), develop emotional connection to the project (Greer, 2000; Preece, 1999), and have frequent interactions with the core…”
Groups Formation and Operations in the Web 2.0 Environment and Social Networks (2008, background): “Community, akin to the need to belong and communicate with trusted people about common issues and interests, is viewed as the reward of the whole system ( Blanchard and Markus 2004 ).”
Deep Twitter diving: exploring topical groups in microblogs at scale (2014, background): “User groups in social sciences: The topic of user groups (or communities) in societies has been widely studied in behavioral sciences, and a variety of theories have been proposed to explain the formation of such groups [4, 8, 21, 29].”
How Social Are Social Media? A Review of Online Social Behaviour and Connectedness (2017, background): “While sense of community is typically conceptualised as an offline phenomenon, individuals can also obtain this feeling in an online context (Blanchard & Markus, 2004).”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “The literature has also produced a variety of other structural mechanisms that help sustain community membership , including community size (Butler 2001), critical mass (Blanchard and Markus 2004, Peddibhotla and Subramani 2007), and external recognition (Jeppesen and Frederiksen 2006).”
Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community (2011, background): “…members create (in the case of Twitter, artifacts are source-follow relationships and their postings) and, based on these artifacts, quantify each of the four conditions described above (e.g., Blanchard, 2004; Blanchard & Markus, 2004; Efimova & Hendrick, 2005; Gruzd, 2009a; Koh & Kim, 2004).”
The value of participation in virtual consumer communities on brand loyalty (2006, background): “Although not directly contributing to the community, lurking in the virtual community can also be seen as a form of passive participation (Blanchard and Markus, 2003; Nonnecke and Preece, 2000).”
Community organizations and sense of community: further development in theory and measurement (2008, neutral): “…in community psychology and other disciplines (e.g., Anderson, 2005; Journal of Community Psychology DOI: 10.1002/jcop Black & Hughes, 2001; Blanchard & Markus 2004; Farrell, Aubry, & Coulombe, 2004; Halamova, 2001a, 2001b, 2002; Herman, Onaga, Pernice-Duca, Oh, & Ferguson, 2005; Keough,…”
‘STORMFRONT IS LIKE A SECOND HOME TO ME’ (2008, background): “The existence of an online sense of community is underlined by the ‘community behaviours’ (Blanchard & Markus 2004; cf. Watson 1997) displayed on the forum.”
Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies (2015, background): “Research has found that online participation is connected to many positive outcomes as it indicates greater member loyalty and satisfaction with the online community (Blanchard & Markus, 2004).”
Adolescents' sense of community on myspace and facebook: a mixed-methods approach. (2010, background): “Along these lines, exploring multiple sport newsgroups (MSN), Blanchard and Markus (2004) also found that many of the key characteristics of PSC were reported by the users of MSN.”