Online community and the personal diary : writing to connect at Open Diary |
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Author: | Martinviita, Annamari1 |
Organizations: |
1University of Oulu, English Philology, PO Box 1000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | embargoed |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201703245822 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2016
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Publish Date: | 2018-06-09 |
Description: |
AbstractOpen Diary was the first online diary service to be created, in existence from 1998 to 2014. An ethnographic case study was performed in 2006–2008 to explore community-creation on the site, using the theory of sense of virtual community (Blanchard & Markus, 2002, 2004) to analyse site practices and the member experience. The study describes a cohesive community based on a culture of support, empathy and open sharing of personal lives enabled by anonymity and privacy protections. The article discusses these results in terms of community-creation online and compares Open Diary to current forms of life writing online, blogging in particular, arguing that it was the members’ and designers’ understanding and experience of the traditional pen-and-paper diary that enabled the building of a unique community on the site, creating an experience that is perhaps no longer possible to replicate due to the social and cultural changes that have occurred on the web since 1998. see all
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Series: |
Computers in human behavior |
ISSN: | 0747-5632 |
ISSN-E: | 0747-5632 |
ISSN-L: | 0747-5632 |
Volume: | 63 |
Pages: | 672 - 682 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.089 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.089 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
518 Media and communications 515 Psychology 5141 Sociology 616 Other humanities |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by the Lecturer Aino Hoikkala fund and the Lecturer Anna Vuorio fund at the University of Oulu; the Emil Aaltonen Foundation; and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu. |
Copyright information: |
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
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