Community

A community is a group of people who tend to reside together in one place, and share common goals, attitudes, and interests. People within a community interact with each other and feel a sense of belonging. Communities can include many different groups, organizations, and institutions. College's and universities have a sense of community as well as religious groups, sports teams, families, etc. Basically anything that brings people together who share common interests, goals or attitudes can be considered a community. Communities consist of members, roles, communication processes, needs, and skills, etc,. Anyone can be part of a community, it is just a sense of belonging and having things in common with the people around you. It is basically like a culture, communities can have a certain way of communicating with each other whether it be verbally or non verbally, have a certain way of dress, different ways of acting towards one another, maybe even eating certain foods, etc,.

The article by Ellison, Seinfeld, and Lamp mention that in early research it was recommended to use systems on the internet that would connect people of one community, to people in other communities. Social networking can bring people together and this is something beneficial to communities, they are not so confined to only one certain way of living, and they can possibly get outside perspectives. Communities can consist of different people with different views and beliefs, therefore every community is different and unique in their own way.

Links for What is Culture?

When searching on Delicious for what culture is, these are the 5 links that I found:

Definition of culture 1. http://www.culture.co.in/ #uacmc #defineculture
What is culture 2. http://www.culture-at-work.com/concept1.html #uacmc #defineculture
Human culture 3. http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm #uacmc #defineculture
American Culture 4. http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm #uacmc #defineculture
Organizational culture 5. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ndu/strat-ldr-dm/pt4ch16.html #uacmc #defineculture

Computer Mediated Communication - Four tools

In today's assignment we used four types of interactive communication. These included Prezi, Webpage, Twitter, and Blogger. Each one of these is beneficial in different ways.
Prezi is used as a presentation site where you can present information but we learned today that if you are logged in you can edit a prezi, you can add your own information, see what other people are editing and adding and it can be a very interactive site.
The webpage was not as interactive but increased your awareness of all the possible sites you can use to interact with other people, whether it be a blog, social networking, posting pictures, or just a simple search engine.
Twitter on the other hand is very interactive if you have an account you can see that people are constantly updating their status' and you can always comment, reply or make your own status' as well. You can search certain topics like for example if we typed in #uacmc we could see all the other tools fellow students tweeted about.
Blogger is used to create your own posts, express your feelings about a certain topic and have other reacts and respond with their own opinions, as well as you being able to edit and comment on other peoples posts.
In the readings it talks about web 1.0 and 2.0, I think that all four of these types of interaction would be 2.0 because they provide a sense of active creativity among the users, you can share content, express feelings, continuously be online at any time, and their are peer to peer programs such including twitter and many others that keep you in contact with multiple people at once.