No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities

Published:2022-03-30 Issue:CSCW1 Volume:6 Page:1-25
ISSN:2573-0142
Container-title:Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

Author:

TeBlunthuis Nathan¹,Kiene Charles¹,Brown Isabella¹,Levi Laura (Alia)¹,McGinnis Nicole¹,Hill Benjamin Mako¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Abstract

Large-scale quantitative analyses have shown that individuals frequently talk to each other about similar things in different online spaces. Why do these overlapping communities exist? We provide an answer grounded in the analysis of 20 interviews with active participants in clusters of highly related subreddits. Within a broad topical area, there are a diversity of benefits an online community can confer. These include (a) specific information and discussion, (b) socialization with similar others, and (c) attention from the largest possible audience. A single community cannot meet all three needs. Our findings suggest that topical areas within an online community platform tend to become populated by groups of specialized communities with diverse sizes, topical boundaries, and rules. Compared with any single community, such systems of overlapping communities are able to provide a greater range of benefits.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3512908

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