Skills: Use Google Plus communitiesConcepts: Computer mediated communities of common interest

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Internet communities of common interest

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.

What will on-line interactive communities be like? ... They will be communities not of common location, but of common interest.

Licklider and Taylor, 1968JCR Licklider

Robert Taylor

Google Plus communities

Our class community(needs a logo)

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___ Members___ Post categories

___ Search box___ Create a post

___ Posts and conversations___ Name and logo

Community user interface

___ About

Summary

Self-study questions

We have looked at Google Plus communites. What other Internet applications support collaboration among members of communities of common interest?

Give an example of a community of common interest to individuals.

Give an example of a community of common interest within an organization.

Give an example of a society wide community of common interest.

Resources

Two extremely influential papers by J. C. R. Lickider with an introduction by Robert Taylor:http://memex.org/licklider.pdf