Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Online Communities (Before Presentation)

A virtual community is that a group of people who particularly interact with another group of people through communication media such as letters, telephone, email, chat room or instant messenger rather than face to face.

Our presentation is mainly focusing on online tools such as chat room and instant messenger. Computer conferencing emerged as a tool for using the communication capacities of the networks to build social relationships across barriers of space and time. “Computer-mediated relationships” produce an entire range of transference and counter-transferences that occur between players. Therefore, computer conferencing causes positive results and also negative cases.

1 comment:

Carrie Yu said...

Nowadays,virtual community such as MSN is a popular communication tool to commmunicate with people through the internet. The distance between the people is become more narrow because of the internet. It is a user friendly system as it hasn't got any limitation with the time and space. We can communicate with someone at any time and space.Going online to access the virtual community is become a part of our life.