Vilma Lehtinen Mediated community from an intergroup perspective
Mediated community from an intergroup perspec3ve: A literature review Vilma Leh3nen1, Eeva Raita3, Mikael Wahlström2, Peter Peltonen3, Airi Lampinen4 1Helsinki Ins3tute for Informa3on Technology HIIT, Espoo, Finland 2VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki, Finland 3Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 4Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden online mediated virtual community hate groups... ...as an intergroup phenomenon In current literature on mediated communi3es? Levels of explana3on in social psychology (Doise, 1982) Inter-‐personal and situa3onal Intra-‐ individual Ideological Posi3onal 08/06/15 6 Scope of the review 1/2 Iden3fica3on of relevant journals • New Media & Society (34 hits for "online community" in abstract or topic) • Computers in Human Behavior (27 hits) • The Informa3on Society (18) • Journal of Computer-‐Mediated Communica3on (16) • • • Selected ar3cles • N=479 New Media & Society (123 hits for "community" in abstract) Computers in Human Behavior (178) Journal of Computer-‐Mediated Communica3on (90) Informa3on Society (88) • reference to other topics than community or non-‐use of the term (-‐21) • use only as a data source or men3on only in implica3ons (-‐54) • reference solely to geo-‐located en33es, w/o reference to mediated community (-‐51) Excluded ar3cles • reference to demographic, occupa3onal, religious en3ty, w/o reference to N=215 mediated community (-‐89) Scope of the review 2/2 Final set of ar3cles reviewed N=264 Iden3fica3on of conceptualiza3ons of mediated community • • • • New Media & Society (73) Computers in Human Behavior (99) Journal of Computer-‐Mediated Communica3on (62) The Informa3on Society (30) Search terms: "communit*" • Pieces that do not elaborate on the concept (-‐104) • Pieces without empirical data (-‐36) Ar3cles analyzed N=124 Findings 1/5 35 studies studying mediated community through... individuals’ sen3ments, traits and percep3ons e.g. sense of (virtual) community Blanchard, A. Developing a Sense of Virtual Community Measure. CyberPsychol. Behav. 10, 6, 827–-‐830 (2007) outgroups contribu3ng to these sen3ments? Findings 2/5 45 studies set of connec3ons between individuals amount and strength of 3es surveys or logged use data e.g. “Communi3es of prac3ce” Giles, D. C. & Newbold, J. (2013) e.g. “Internet-‐specific” social capital Ellison, N., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C. (2007) What happens on the boundaries of the network? Kazmer, M. (2007) Findings 3/5 5 studies experiments on the effect of a salient group iden3ty e.g. Jahnke, I. Dynamics of social roles in a knowledge management community. Comput. Hum. Behav. 26, 233-‐-‐546 (2010) Posi3onal Findings 4/5 39 studies outcome of nego3a3ons over what kinds of shared values, norms, prac3ces and the like are cons3tu3ve of the community. share ....understandings that individuals par3cipa3ng in a mediated community OR ....different groups which struggle for their existence ''inside'' it. Phillips, D. Defending the Boundaries: Iden3fying and Countering Threats in a Usenet Newsgroup. Inform Soc. 12, 1, 39-‐-‐62 (1996) as a process of constant nego3a3on that occurs on its permeable boundaries. Findings 5/5 to view mediated community as an intergroup phenomenon is marginal in current literature poten3al intergroup for an perspec3ve outgroups contribute to a sense of community interac3on occurs on the borders between communi3es Interpersonal and situa3onal intergroup rela3ons delineate the symbolic construc3on of communi3es Ideologic al
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