week5

Virtual communities

"when people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships...”( H.Rheingold,1993,The Virtual Community)Virtual communities, or online communities, are used for a variety of social and professional groups interacting via the Internet. Virtual communities become a supplemental form of communication between people who know each other primarily in real life. Though discussing, people from anywhere can discuss some society problems together.

web 2.0 = Read-Write Web

The Features described create a version of the internet where average people can contribute --- The Read-Write web. It means that everyone can read the web and write some critiques. People can share their mind. As a social media, web makes a very important position. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.