The Anthropology of Online Communities
By Samuel M. Wilson, L. C. Peterson. 2002
565 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Anthropology, Communication, Human-Computer Interaction
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/44c31f7f8065b6e81b77b809d4f6e4fc000d7034
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In Anthropology
In Communication
- Jure Leskovec
- Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
- Robert West
- Christopher Potts
- Dan Jurafsky
- E. G. Coleman
- Svetlana Stepchenkova
- Francisco Ortega
In Human-Computer Interaction
- Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
- E. G. Coleman
- Jure Leskovec
- Dan Jurafsky
- Francisco Ortega
- Dirk Hovy
Citations in the corpus
- No country for old members: user lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities (2013, background): “There is extensive research covering the evolution of online communities [21, 28], the evolution of community members [2, 10, 16, 29, 32], and their participation patterns [1, 3, 26, 30, 31, 48] (see Section 6 for a discussion).”
- The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity (2009, background): “Are brain metaphors mobilized in the same sense by all self-advocates? Are there different versions of a ‘brain story’ (Martin, 2009)? And how do these stories work in blogs, discussion groups, autobiographies, conferences? What sort of information is being used? Is it drawn from scientific articles”
- Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “…frames of analysis, attention to history, and the 2This review does not consider in much depth virtual worlds, the role of digital tools in reshaping ethnographic inquiry, or many publications covered in earlier ARA reviews on similar topics (Cook 2004, Eisenlohr 2004, Wilson & Peterson 2002).”
- Internet addiction: Meta-synthesis of qualitative research for the decade 1996-2006 (2008, background): “Since the proliferation of computer networking systems, particularly that of the Internet, there has been a rapid emergence of online interactions between groups of people with very similar interests who, although geographically dispersed, congregate in an absolute space (Wilson & Peterson, 2002).”