terça-feira, agosto 19, 2003

Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities

Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities: "Emerging as a powerful catalyst of the increase in global communication forums are online communities. Ranging from simple text-based newsgroups to intricate immersive virtual reality multi-user environments, these communities, whether graphic or not, are strung together by conversational text, or chat. Chat entails any number of individuals communicating with each other using text-based communication, often appearing as a chat window in graphic environments."