Dec 20th, 2011
This past weekend I defended my dissertation on Sense of Community in a Mediate World. It was fun to see friends and classmates from over the years gathered together and hear their input on my findings. Now my file is in the hands of the university for proof reading, and hopefully there will be a [...]
May 3rd, 2011
Over at senseofcommunityresearch.org I’ve been posting interesting snippets uncovered during the data analysis of my dissertation research. In it I look at sense of community in a mediated world by getting input from World of Warcraft players on four communities to which they belong. So far you can see: Participation by Invitation Source: In-game vs. [...]
Apr 6th, 2011
Sherry Turkle’s concept of “synthetic” reality strikes me as the perfect explanation for all of the discord in comparing online and offline communities.
Apr 3rd, 2011
It’s been a long time coming, and I finally have a new site up. Much of the old content is temporarily unavailable as I migrate it to the new format. Not everything will be back, but an archive of the media psychology blog I have been writing since 2004 will be re-introduced.
It is an exciting time for readers because our access to books is evolving, and I have high hopes for a future with a new kind of local book shop. Fleeting Pages, a pop-up shop, will offer ideas about (and inspiration for) that future for one month.