Feawen
06-07-2008, 11:30 PM
My cousin's doing a masters and needs a few more girls to do this questionnaire, but guys aren't excluded. So if you want to do it, fire away.
It's about online communities, and isn't very long. Clicky (http://www.michaeldoyle.eu/php/question_a.php)
She was talking to me about what she was doing as part of the research a while back, that the development of online communities such as ours is interesting in a psychological sense. In real life, we would build cities and congregate for safety and allegiance and for the amenities a community would create. Whereas online, there's no specific reason. She put forward the question that we congregate online in a similar fashion to real life, for people we can connect to, for sharing of knowledge like an amenity, and to have a sense of belonging to something.
It's an interesting psychological... Thing. One that's only really developed in the last ten years. Has there been much written in psychology journals and so on about it? Or would it follow on from those anonymity tests they did before?
It's about online communities, and isn't very long. Clicky (http://www.michaeldoyle.eu/php/question_a.php)
She was talking to me about what she was doing as part of the research a while back, that the development of online communities such as ours is interesting in a psychological sense. In real life, we would build cities and congregate for safety and allegiance and for the amenities a community would create. Whereas online, there's no specific reason. She put forward the question that we congregate online in a similar fashion to real life, for people we can connect to, for sharing of knowledge like an amenity, and to have a sense of belonging to something.
It's an interesting psychological... Thing. One that's only really developed in the last ten years. Has there been much written in psychology journals and so on about it? Or would it follow on from those anonymity tests they did before?