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Online communities present the problems of preoccupation, distraction, detachment, and desensitization to an individual, although online support groups exist now. Online communities do present potential risks, and users must remember to be careful and remember that just because an online community feels safe does not mean it necessarily is. [35]
The traditional definition of a community is of geographically circumscribed entity (neighborhoods, villages, etc.). Virtual communities are usually dispersed geographically, and therefore are not communities under the original definition. Some online communities are linked geographically, and are known as community websites.
Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, [1]: 63 specifically the Internet.
The emergence of social networking platforms in the mid-2000s facilitated a transformative shift in the distribution of internet art. Early online communities were organized around specific "topical hierarchies", [15] whereas social networking platforms consist of egocentric networks, with the "individual at the center of their own community". [15]
The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The WELL.A second edition, with a new concluding chapter, was published in 2000 by MIT Press.
The net.art movement arose in the context of the wider development of Internet art. As such, net.art is more of a movement and a critical and political landmark in Internet art history, than a specific genre. Early precursors of the net.art movement include the international fluxus (Nam June Paik) and avant-pop (Mark Amerika) movements.
Public Art Online, maintains a database of public art works, essays and case studies, with a focus on the UK. [46] The Institute for Public Art, based in the UK, maintains information about public art on six continents. [47] The WikiProject Public art project began in 2009 and strove to document public art around the globe.
The sociology of the Internet in the stricter sense concerns the analysis of online communities (e.g. as found in newsgroups), virtual communities and virtual worlds, organizational change catalyzed through new media such as the Internet, and social change at-large in the transformation from industrial to informational society (or to ...