E-community trends: social etiquette impacts, dangers, benefits, and miscommunication

E-communities' Impact

The Impact of E-communities

Table of Contents ( 35 ref - 45 p, -- MLA)

E-community Characteristics

"Being a Member" Benefits

Etiquette Examples.

Danger and miscommunication from E-communities.

Summary of evidence supporting the Hypothesis

Explanation of methodological approach of investigation.

i? Conclusion: further thinking or the term, egoboo.

The Impact of E-communities

E-community Characteristics

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life.

(Cather)

Egoboo and Other "Everyday" Terms

Egoboo?

Online Bully"

Virtual Communities?

Cather (1925) obviously never referred to these contemporary "sayings" or terms, related to online communities, when commenting on community characteristics. Today, albeit, terms such as these, along with a barrage of abbreviations, such as ATW; BRB; LOL; CYO, flavor conversations connecting online community members.

Generally, an individual wants recognition for his/her contributions, a common human condition, which some call "Egoboo." Online, however, egobooa and other "common" words many possess a number of meanings. For instance, a Google search for the term, egoboo, "nets" 137,000 results. During the course of this study, which investigates the impact of E-communities, benefits, misconceptions, social etiquettes, dangers, and trends of E-communities will also be explored.

An E-community consists of a group of people, who may or may not initially communicate or cooperate through the Internet. E-communities also comprise an additional forum for communication among individuals, who know each other in "real life." Dawn of the information age found groups who preferred virtual communication rather than real "eye-to-eye" dialogue. A "Computer-Mediated Community" (CMC) uses the social software to adjust actions of the participants. E-community of a type is responsible for common creation of the open initial software sometimes refers to as development by community. Essential socio-technical change followed from fast increase the Internet - based social networks.

A community on the Internet or E-community serves as an online resource to allow members of their designated or chosen alliance, who share a common interest, to communicate, share ideas, pose questions and distribute electronic resources. E-communities provide an ideal tool for a committees' group to share information in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Inside an E-community, each division, section, chapter, interest group, committee and executive has its own community, limited to and defined by to its unique membership.

Each E-community consists of three sections:

1. News

2. Discussion Forums

3. Document Archive.

The "New" section features posts of announcements, notices, and press releases for E-community members. Each E-community may host an "unlimited" number of "Discussion Forums" in which members talk about their interests; concerns; etc.. Members post messages within a discussion forum which other members may respond to or provide feedback regarding post, and/or comment on subject. A "Document Archive" consists of an online repository of documents such as newsletters, reports, position statements, forms, and other types of electronic documents, relevant to the E-community members' interests.

E-communities readily provide research platforms to address issues/activities that challenge a community's efficacy. As computer support for community activity presents the potential to transcend boundaries, which traditionally constrain social interaction, the internet even provides the opportunity for individuals with abstruse interests to find support from like-minded people distributed across the world. Currently, due to some technological limits in some areas, benefits of electronically-based communities may be restricted to individuals with high quality internet servers. As technology improves around the world, however, demand for access to community support and better connections are expected to increase.

As current technology proves to be a limiting factor in some instances, coherent use of this novel medium requires new ways to monitor and support E-community be developed, to consequently ensure individuals extract the maximum available benefits. In addition, the Internet needs to be tuned to the positive, practical purposes accompanying E-communities to better accommodate the vast number of potential participants.

Today, a variety of social groups, cooperating through the Internet, may freely utilize a virtual or an online community. Being a member of an E-community, albeit does not necessarily mean a strong obligation exists among the members, as various virtual communities have various levels of interaction and participation among their members. Some E-communities' members remain relative strangers, particularly when their E-community consist of members of an Email distribution list. The "membership" may include hundreds or more individuals with communications limited to the exchange of information (questions/answers via Email).

Members' participation in virtual E-communities may evolve from addition of comments or attributes to a personal blog or post relating government concerns, to online competition against other individuals participating in online video games such as MMORPGS (need to define this). Though they may initially appear "strange," online communities are not that different from traditional social groups or club. Virtual communities, similar to real-life communities, frequently divide themselves in clans and/or frequently separate to form new E-communities.

Although the ability to cooperate, counter and communicate with like-minded persons instantly from everywhere on the Earth proffers significant benefits, some critics of virtual communities fear engaging in them and challenge their value. The valid (virtual) communities may, in fact, serve as a dangerous hunting field for online criminals, e-community opponents argue. Identify thieves, stalkers and sexual predators present threats to some targeted and unsuspecting individuals, with children being particularly "at risk" for online dangers. Other individuals contend that spending too much time in the virtual communities may not only net negative or dangerous consequences, but also may negatively impact a person's "real- world" interactions.

"Being a Member" Benefits

What Counts

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

(Dworkiw)

Reasons to Join

A number of virtual and "real world" promptings lead a person to join and/or contribute to the virtual communities, many which establish their own unique cultures. Reasons include:

Too participate in various dialogues which present global resources for personal information;

To share knowledge

To solicit business

To convert

To receive recognition

To promote political ideas

To learn and/or teach

To vent and/or argue

To play games

To meet new people

(several more to be added here)

Emerging E-communities

In the magazine article, "Eight Supertrends Shaping the Future of Business: Success in the Business World of Tomorrow Means Recognizing the Sweeping Changes of Today," Karl Albrecht reports on "the emergence of web communities," and that groups of political proponents and opponents regularly "swarm," and/or "mob" political entities to try to influence politicians. "New psychopathologies, such as 'Internet addiction,' 'digital depression,' and 'connected aloneness,' are underlining unfulfilled needs for social connections, particularly in the 'geek' population and among young people. In fact, South Korea opened a Centre for Internet Addiction Prevention and Counseling after a young man collapsed and died following an 80-hour Internet gaming session."

Dating E-communities

Hiawatha Bray notes that Internet dating, once labeled as a last resort for nerds and losers who could not find a "real live date," now constitutes a forum for members of online communities seeking "love.." According to Jupiter Research, approximately 16% of all U.S. Internet users, or 33 million people, visited a dating site in 2006.

For the privilege of being of member of this certain community composite, Americans spent $650 million in 2006 on internet dates or "digital hookups." Approximately five percent of Americans, who use the Internet for dating, purchase paid subscriptions to these online dating services. As this percentage has stagnated for the past several years, the Internet dating industry leaders are trying new advertising or promotions to lour in more cash flow from existing customers and also attract new members to their "community." (Bray, 2007)

Online dating service subscriptions can cost upwards approximately $20 for a one month subscription or membership, upwards to $50 for three months, or $100 a year or more. Internet dating services may include instant messaging, along with daily e-mail alerts, allowing subscribers to know when a new member joins. (Bray, 2007)

Kamika Dunlap (2002) relates details about online dating communities in the article, "Online dating services getting more personal." She quotes Trish McDermott, vice president of "romance" at Match.com, to state, "Dating is part science, art and emotional negotiation." A majority of the lifestyle questions in online dating questionnaires help internet dating users define their ideal mate. Numerous combined variables include location, age, smoking preference, as well as drinking habits and educational background. Also, Internet dating users can type "freeform" and communicate in a text box defining more insight about themselves and their hobbies and interests.

This particular type community's success stems from a combination of subscriber growth and people wanting more meaningful relationships post September. 11, 2001 tragedy, Tim Sullivan, Match.com president, states. "It had an effect on people's attitude about dating and finding the right match." Online dating is more about control and not so much about ____, according to a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. People today look for security, lean toward marriage, and want more enduring qualities. (Dunlap, 2002)

E-community Chat Rooms

Chun Lai and Yong Zhao purport in their work: "Noticing and text-based chat": studies examining the capacity of text-based online chat rooms help learners' improve language problems. Twelve ESL learners who participated subsequently found that participating in text-based online chat rooms promoted a noticeable difference in their face-to-face conversations, particularly in noticing their own linguistic mistakes.

Psychologists stress little if any learning occurs without attention. "Text-based online chat, a particular form of synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) involving written oral-like conversation, has the great potential of increasing noticing for two reasons:

1. Compared to face-to-face conversations, CMC allows conversations to flow at slower speeds than face-to-face; consequently permitting "speakers" to have longer times to process receiving and producing the target language.

2. CMC can save texts (previous messages) in format that users may later access. (Lai and Zhao)

The following copy of "ESL Online Talk Community" illustrates concept Lai and Zhao present.

Practice makes perfect, but many ESL students do not have opportunities to practice speaking English. This Website is trying to establish an online community to enable learners to practice their English with fellow learners all over the world, anytime you like. All you have to do to join this online community is:

a) Download and install MSN Messenger (http://messenger.msn.com/)

b) Get a free hotmail account (http://www.hotmail.com)

c) Sign up to join in the ESL Online Talking Community

d) Add other learners' hotmail e-mail addresses to your Messenger contacts list

Now, whenever you turn on your computer and sign in to MSN Messenger, your contacts list will tell you who is online. You can invite online people to talk to you, or set up a meeting for them to join. If you have a quickCam, a video camera used on the Internet, you can have a face-to-face talk. Just click the button to start your NetMeeting program! (ESL Online)

(ESL Online Talk Community" (n.d.) http://www.rong-chang.com/talk/talksign.htm

ATW

All the Web or Around the Web

Community Changes

a) Recognition

The recognition is important for the online contributors such as, in general, individuals want recognition for their contributions, some have named this Egoboo. To a degree it is enterprise of an individual, the contributions will be probably increased to degree that the contribution is seen to community as a whole and to a degree where there is some recognition of the contributions of the man. -- powerful effects apparently of trivial markers of a recognition (for example designated as "the official assistant") was commented in set of dialogue communities -- " One of the key components of encouraging reputation should allow the investors be known or to not be anonymous. When is involved in illegal actions, hackers of the computer should protect their personal identities with pseudonyms. If hackers use the same nicknames repeatedly, it can help authorities to trace them. However, hackers refuse to change their pseudonyms regularly, because the status connected to a specific nickname would be lost.

The structures and reputation are clearly obvious in online communities today. Amazon.com -- " is in an urgent moment, as all investors allow to create structures concerning themselves and their contributions are measured by community. Myspace.com encourages complex structures for the members, where they can share all kinds of the information concerning what music they love, their heroes, etc. In addition to this, many communities give stimulus for assistance. For example, many forums give you departure by mail. The members can spend these items in the virtual store. EBay - is an example of e-community, where the reputation is very important, because it is used to have the sizes reliable from whom that you will do potentially business with. With eBay, you have an opportunity to estimate your experience with somebody, and they, similarly, can estimate you. It has effect on the account of reputation.

b) Sense of Efficiency

The individuals can bring in the valuable information, because the certificate comes to an end somewhat of efficiency, that is, a sense, that they had some effect on this environment. There is well-advanced literature of research, which has shown, how important sensation of efficiency is, both the creation regular and contributions of high quality to group can help individuals to believe, that they have influence on group and support their own self-image as the effective man.

History Suggests

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QUOTATION:

What life have you if you have not life together?

There is no life that is not in community,

ATTRIBUTION:

T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888 -- 1965), U.S.-born -- British poet, critic. "Choruses from 'The Rock'...."

http://www.bartleby.com/66/91/4091.html

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. but, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

ATTRIBUTION:

Aristotle (384 -- 323 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Politics 1.1.; 1252a1-6, the Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton, Princeton University Press (1985).

QUOTATION:

ATTRIBUTION:

Ronald Dworkin (b. 1931), U.S. philosopher, lawyer. Taking Rights Seriously, p. 113, Harvard University Press (1977).

http://www.bartleby.com/66/48/18148.html

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

(Dworkiw)

QUOTATION:

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

ATTRIBUTION:

Robert F. Kennedy (1925 -- 1968), U.S. attorney general, Democratic politician. The Pursuit of Justice, pt. 3, "Eradicating Free Enterprise in Organized Crime," (1964).

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed.

Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

(Lewis, 1992)

http://www.bartleby.com/66/18/35918.html

QUOTATION:

ATTRIBUTION:

Michael Lewis (late 20th century), professor, pediatrics and psychiatry. Shame, the Exposed Self, Chapter 11 (1992).

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Keyword

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Groups Home. My Space. Retrieved 25 June 2007 from:http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.categories&MyToken=f7a1d8f8-ca60-4c61-842f-373b5e9fbdc6.

BBFN

Bye-Bye for Now

YMMV

Your Mileage May Vary

YNK

You Never Know

YOYO

You're on Your Own

YR

Yeah Right

YRYOCC

You're Running on Your Own Cookoo Clock

YSYD

Yeah, Sure You Do

YTRNW

Yeah That's Right, Now What?

YTTT

You Telling the Truth

YUPPIES

Young Urban Professionals

YW

You're Welcome

YWIA

You're Welcome in Advance

YYSSW

Yeah Yeah Sure Whatever

ZZZ

Sleeping, Bored, Tired

At the End of the Day

List of Acronyms & Text Messaging Shorthand. (2007). Retrieved 25 June 2007 from: http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm.

II: THE "COMMERCE" in eCOMMERCE

He thought that, because the community represents millions of people, therefore it must be millions of times more important than the individual, forgetting that the community is an abstraction from the many, and is not the many themselves.

(Lawrence, 15)

QUOTATION:

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."

ATTRIBUTION:

Sigmund Freud (1856 -- 1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. In Complete Works, vol. 21, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1961). Civilization and its Discontents, Chapter 3 (1930).

Freud interpreted this replacement of the power of the individual by the power of the community as "the decisive step of civilization."

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c) Sense of Community

The people, in general, are rather social beings, and it motivates to many people, which is necessary to answer directly for their contributions. The most e-communities allow the people to answer back the contributions (that is much Blogs allows the comment from the readers, you can answer back posts of a forum, and so on). (3)

3. Examples of the etiquette

There are many sites which confirm real danger of online internal violence, send by mail information to train their users concerning prosecution cyber, alongside with the recommendations of a type, it would be better for you 1. Not to say your real name to the strangers 2. To create sort - neutral username for addresses your electronic mail or nicknames of friendly conversation.

The FBI began investigating Internet crimes against children approximately 13 years ago with a case in Maryland. In 2004, 11,500 cases across the nation and 28 undercover operations involving Internet crimes against children were reported. The FBI along with state and local law enforcement agents work closely together in approximately 45 task forces that makeup a national network, established in 1998 to bring together all the expert advice possible to crackdown on Internet stalkers. ("CYBER COPS . . ., " 2004)

3. To use illogical samples for your password 4. Never give your password to anyone, especially, if who - requests that it in email or instant message.

5. To change your password frequently

6. To instruct children never to distribute to their real name, address, or telephone number, dialogue without your sanction.

7. To not distribute number of a credit card in a unsafe environment.

If you are pursued, you ought

1. To send the message to offender. Do it by the clear warning, that the contact is undesirable. Stop all communications, and hold a copy of all messages.

2. To register obedient with offenders of ISP provider.

3. Message of the Filter

4. To receive the help from WHO@ either NCVC or Cyber Angels 5. To establish a paper trace.

6. To register prosecution, are in a police department 7. To save all messages, written and registered 8. To hold all copies from houses (Stalkers, as is known, interrupt and will steal things.) 9. If you receive email with the very much certain threat, enter contact to your local lawful department of realization.

Cyber stalker could leave for the physical world and tempt you for the first meeting; will destroy your house, workplace or vehicle; send threat or obscene mail; also doof the offensive and excessive reference on the phone.

Internet Child Molesters

Today, when a person goes online, he/she has a "world" of company which includes millions of strangers. Although these people are not ones most would let into their home, dangerous predators do in fact come in as a person literally allows them into their home because they are "online." Ten of thousand of Americans are victims of stalking on the Internet; repeated cases of harassment; and even physical threats.

The FBI calls the sexual exploitation of children online one of the most significant crime problems our nation currently faces. On March 30, 2000, Dan Rather, Peter Van Sant, Bill Lagattuta, and Susan Spencer, presented "Cyber-Stalker: Internet Danger" on 48 Hours (CBS). They report FBI official's and cyber cops who search for pedophiles on the Internet continually find more child stalkers and stress each new crackdown turns up more "horror stories" about child molesters and victims. ("CYBER COPS . . ., " 2004)

The e-communities are maintained to be responsible to supply the certificate of their communication to a case, such as E-mail logs may be presented to demonstrate the E-mail traffic to the victim's computer, membership information and copies of Email messages they have sent to the defendant. Such message will usually have the URL at the top of the message. The numbers on the top are significant as they are able to tie the message to the computer, which has the account that sent the message. Information regarding the server or E-mail account used by the defendant may be presented. Testimony from AOL, Yahoo, MSN, or other Internet Service Provider (ISP) representatives may be presented with regards to the defendant Email, use of web sites, or use of chat rooms.(2)

4. Danger and miscommunication from e-communities

For each boon there is always downside-such takes place with the Internet, which became not only information highway, but also and children's platform for individuals, who aspires to damage to others as San Diego criminal defense attorneys of protection quickly find out, so useful and interesting, as the Internet can be, a lot of information about Internet users resides online and an enterprising criminal knows where and how to find it.

MySpace.com has answered proactively these incidents, bringing the children's expert of safety aboard. Besides two businessmen, who created the code to a trace the status of the attitudes MySpace.com of judicial claim of the person of the users, social lawyers website's of organization of a network, have warned.

Another website with similar functions also was closed after the prevention (warning) from MySpace.com. Jared the Dealer by candles, who began DatingAnyone.com in April, has told MySpace.com further required, that it (he) does not let out the initial code for the project. MySpace.com naked his (its) teeth in the letter of the Dealer by candles writing, that the site has broken the laws of California against cabin and federal laws of the trade mark.

The attorney of protection of a criminal of Chicago follows these managing principles from the criminal Illinois Criminal Code:

(a) the man makes prosecution cyber when he or she it is conscious and without the lawful justification, on at least 2 separate happen, disturb other man with the help of electronic communication and: (1) at any time transfers threat direct, or future wholly harm, sexual attack, conclusion, or restriction, and the threat is directed to the that man, or the member of family of that man, or (2) places that man or member of family of that man in a reasonable presentiment direct, or future wholly harm, sexual attack, conclusion, or restriction.

(B) as is used in this Section:

"Disturb" means to participate in knowledge and deliberate rate of the behavior directed on the certain man, which annoys, torments, or terrorizes that man.