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Asynchronous Text-Based Community: Proposals for the Analysis

Asynchronous Text-Based Community: Proposals for the Analysis
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Author(s): Antonella Mascio (University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title: Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Honglei Li (Northumbria University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch002

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Abstract

The chapter starts with a short introduction to the complex phenomenon of Virtual Communities as part of media convergence process. The aim of the chapter is the analysis of Text-Based Communities through methodologies of ethnography and socio-semiotics, with specific focus, and analysis, of some virtual groups related to TV-Drama and linked to Fashion genre. The last part of the chapter is about the analysis of these virtual groups.

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