What is Community

Community is used to refer to the quality or character of human relationships and social interactions that bind persons to each other to form a social group; often, but not always theses people share a bounded geographic territory, and/or common culture.

A group of people who interact each other in the same space and time. They share a culture and a reciprocal trust.

A group of people living together in the same area.

A group of people who have a common interest, purpose, or objective and who learn to acquaint themselves with one another over time through a gamified information system.

Deliberate and purposeful operations with others that include social, economic, and political exchanges.

See Thomas and Brown (2011) .

A group of people with shared interests that interact. In case of open source software, the community is the group of developers and users that come together, mostly on a Web site, to discuss, debug, and develop the software.

It is the group of people who benefit from the project. It is a synonym for beneficiaries.

Group of people that share common characteristics; for a community of interest , a common role on a common task; for a community of expertise , a common area of knowledge and professional experience.

A group of home units not defined by geographical boundaries but with similar functionalities that can interact and share information unhindered with one another.

A group of people living in a particular area having certain common characteristics.

Group of people, a standardization body, or even an implicit agreement that aims at proposing a specification for a group of objects with some relevant common characteristics.

A social unit based on commonality – for example, common values, beliefs, interests, roles. The quality or character of human relationships and social interactions that bind persons to each other to form a social group; often, but not always, these people share a bounded geographic territory, and/or common culture.

Individuals’ group that is organized around a physical, social, cultural, and technological atmosphere.

A group of connected humans, in this context the students within the classroom.

A group which share geography, tradition, culture, class, law, and race.

Tightly bound groups of people with shared interests and values, common identity, and a sense of belonging. Current approaches treat communities as delineated by interaction and commitment (e.g. virtual communities) rather than by location (e.g. neighbourhoods).

A term used to describe a specific group of individuals sharing common values, culture, and views.

A community is a social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.

Entities outside of the university libraries (i.e., K-12 schools, other university departments, local municipalities, local government, etc.).

Group of people who stays at the same place/country and sharing some common goals among them.

A group of individuals bonded by a common interest, goal, or identity who come together to support, care for, and learn from one another.

A group of people who share common interests or goals and interact with one another in an online space to provide a sense of belonging and support for one another.

The group of people who share affinities and, voluntarily, develop joint actions, in a physical and/or virtual environment, in the context of a territory and produce, repurpose and share information relevant to the development of that territory.

A particular group of people that are connected through commonality.

the scientific community that benefits from improved research.

A collective of individuals who agree to shared values, behaviors, and make those an established practice as a group.

Refers to social groups located in a geographically-bounded area or to people who share practices, values, and interests. Having a geographical connotation leads many scholars to assume that local communities are more authentic, have little connection to online life, and offer richer possibilities for interaction than online arrangements. However, it is problematic to assume prior to investigation that social configurations located in small geographical areas are automatically more morally satisfying or communicatively rich than relationships and social groups that predominantly meet online.

The community involves the different sections that may exist within the department and how they interact with each other to achieve the outcome. This may promote the culture that exists within the department and by extension, the organization.

A group of people that live in the same place or together. In this chapter, it consists, particularly, parents or stakeholders in the northern part of Malaysia.

It is a group of people living together and/or united by shared interests, religion, nationality, and so on.

The group of people who share affinities and, voluntarily, develop joint actions, in a physical and/or virtual environment, in the context of a territory and produce, repurpose and share information relevant to the development of that territory.

Is a form of association of people within a more or less limited space. Enduring relationships that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity.

A social unit bound by a common purpose or characteristics.

In order for students to have an increases satisfaction with their course and a feeling of connection to their instructor and other learners, students must have a perceived sense of community. Community encompasses the components of values, trust, and mutual support.

A commonality that exists between individuals grouped in pursuit of like goals, benefiting one another through their engagement and exchanges.

The group of people meets each other because they live nearby, not because they particularly want to be together. In a community, the members often have shared values and symbols.

An extension of the core activity in CHAT, community refers to external stakeholders who are not subjects of an activity but nevertheless have a say in its realization.

A term commonly used to describe a group or groups defined by a shared interest. The interest itself may be geographic in the sense of referring to people living within a specific geographic area, it may be interest based in terms of ethnicity, faith, demography, economic activity (as in “the business community”) or some other common characteristic.

A sense of belonging in an established and ongoing group of individuals. Integration: The combination of multiple concepts and content in such a way as to be seamless.

A group of people which members relate common experiences and interests.

Community is a key sociological term that is used in normative and political contexts. The German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies defined a community as a system that is shaped by the consciousness of belonging together and the affirmation of the condition of mutual dependence.

This refers to such groups as businesses or corporations, service agencies, sports clubs as well as cultural and civic organizations that have interest in the provision of sound education to learners. It also includes the municipality as well as philanthropists.

Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder (2002) state that communities are “groups of people who share …a set of problems or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis” (p. 4).

As it relates to the teaching profession means a group of teachers, whether in the same or different schools or school districts, whether the same or different subject areas, or other characteristics, who form relationships that increase their comfort in working collaboratively to solve problems related to their work in the classroom.

An activity system of individual agents who share a common goal, such as a community of practice, a cultural or location-based community, or a sub-community within a field, practitioners, etc. For instance, a community of Python using data analysts in the Euro-American finance industry.

A group of people sharing common space, language, and law.

The term is derived from the word communité , which is derived from the Latin communitas ( cum , “with/together” + munus , “gift”), a broad term for fellowship or organized society. In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting species sharing an environment. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. In sociology, the concept of community has led to significant debate, and sociologists are yet to reach agreement on a definition of the term. Traditionally a “community” is defined as a group of interacting people, living in a common location. The word is often used to refer to a group organized around common values and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household. The word can also refer to the national community or global community. Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community no longer has geographical limitations, as people can now virtually gather in an online community and share common interests as citizens regardless of physical location.

A gathering of individuals characterized by support, openness, respect, and a sharing of selves.

What is created when writers share their writing.

An aggregate of people sharing common geographical, social, and cultural pattern of life with relatively interdependent means of livelihood.

Beliefs that using virtual world improves user collaboration, communication, and cooperation

“A social organization of people who share knowledge, values and goals” (Jonassen et al., 2008, p. 134).

Network of relationships within various social groups, including the college or university, through which consensus and tradition develop ( MacIntyre, 1981 ). Questions and conflicts between community tradition and an emerging new consensus may arise; these questions and conflicts are fertile ground for the practices of good character and critical thinking.

This group of people are influential members of a cultural or social environment that may be geographic, emotional or impactful in some important manner of influence. Within this discussion, the community are a group of persons who impact a learner’s sense of self as well as sense of subject matter understanding.

Local grouping of people living in the same geographical area, united by common interests.

Collection of individuals with a shared identity (e.g., geographic region, profession, employment location).

This refers to such groups as businesses or corporations, service agencies, sports clubs as well as cultural and civic organizations that have interest in the provision of sound education to learners. It also includes the municipality as well as philanthropists.

A group of people that share a common problem or interest and that use an appropriate forum to discuss it, maybe supported by IT (blogs, newsgroups, etc.).

A connected group of individuals with shared interest, values, and purpose.

An interacting population of individuals with a common characteristic or interest in a common location within a larger society.

Set of people and rules that are part of the activity system.

A group of people that interact with one another, often but not always in a defined geographical area, and share a common lifestyle, purpose and/or faith. Robert D. Putnam and others identify communities as “bonded,” referring to groups of individuals having strong ties to one another. Communities can be intentional or accidental, physical or psychological. Academic communities exist as do communities of color, and communities of thought or action, any of which may overlap or have fluid boundaries. In this chapter the communities being served are geographic, based on ethnic and racial diversity, and purposefully engaged in the arts.

A group of citizens within a given geographical area and/or a group of individuals who share origins or interests.

Dwelling places of group of people exhibiting the same type of lifestyle.

Refers to a group of people who share some common interest.

Refers to a specific cluster of human settlement in urban (city, municipality, town, trading center), peri-urban (suburb), or rural (village) locations that are often inhabited by related or unrelated people with similar or different socio-economic demographic backgrounds.

A supportive and safe group with shared interests, goals, and values as it pertains to building UNITY and solidarity.

A group of people which members relate common experiences and interests.

People who live as a group in a local area with a sense of belonging to their residential place.

is generally defined as groups of limited number of people held together by common interests and understandings, a sense of obligation and possibly trust.

A group of individuals who share common interests, characteristics, or goals and interact with each other in a social context.

A social group linked by common interests through residence in a specific locality, or, whether or not in physical proximity, whose members perceive themselves as sharing a common ideology, interest, or other characteristic.

a group of people with a common vision.

A community is a subset of nodes in a social network that have dense connections between them and which are sparsely connected to nodes belonging to other communities.

A purposeful group of people centered around a knowledge concept who collaborate through the use of knowledge management and social software tools to support a sustainable and innovative online course and to share learning experiences with person(s) outside of the group.

The numerous professional, bureaucratic, social, gendered, racial, cultural, and other groups that individuals affiliate and associate with in the workplace.

“Calls forth an awareness of mutual assistance and development in the interrelationship and cohesiveness of its membership that will ensure a harmonious existence” ( Galbraith, 1990 , p. 3).

a set of people who have similar interests or concerns and regularly interact to learn/share information about the subject of their interests or concerns

Groups of individuals who are collectively engaged in a domain and share activities and experiences in this group. In this chapter this is mainly related to the domains of soccer and soccer esports.

A physical or representational space whereby members engage in activities based on shared interests.

A group of people with a combined interest living in a particular location.

The Santal.

Set of people who live together under certain rules or who have the same interests who share elements, characteristics, properties, or objectives in common.

This term is used to describe digital working models ascribed to the sharing economy, which involves participation without ownership (for instance, carpooling) and contribution without necessarily expecting monetary compensation. In this sense, the term “community” now expresses the presence of other people in other places interested in similar practices rather than a social cluster of close-knit people.

Each specific community or group in the field which is involved in the development and/or management of a specific standard or set of standards on the basis of an explicit collective need. As such needs are often felt in both private and public domains, a community can be a form of public-private partnership.

One’s community environment can include innumerable groups of people, from personal communities that include friends and relatives to academic communities that include collegial students or coursework or professors, to professional community members that include co-worker colleagues and administrative supervisors.

The notion that a collection of people can work (and support each other) towards the greater benefit of the group. A community may be defined by physical characteristics (e.g., a neighborhood), but also can have non-physical boundaries in terms of a collective goal that benefits the group.

A group or set of individuals with similarities into a network.

A social group of any size whose members have a community of interest and cultural background within the games design and development area.

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

A group of people associated with one another through common proximity, interests, and/or goals.

A group of people who share common goals/interests and participate in joint activities.

The condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common.

A group or collection of individuals bounded by a common element, such as geographic location or shared characteristics (such as job responsibility, need, etc.).

Clusters of people who are thought to have the same ideas or interests.

A group of people characterized by affiliation, collective identity, membership, intimacy, values, experiences, moral obligation.

A social aggregation on the Internet when people interact long enough to form personal relationships. This work was previously published in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, edited by M. Khosrow-Pour, pp. 1305-1308, copyright 2005 by Information Science Reference, formerly known as Idea Group reference (an imprint of IGI Global)

Groups of people who live in the same area, share a common culture, and access the same resources.

A setting where people have a common interest.

It is actually a social unit of any size that shares common values; however he embodied or face-to-face communities are usually treated as small, larger or more extended communities such as a national community, international community and virtual community are also studied.

Parents, agriculture industry leaders, and other non-school personnel who have a special interest in the operation of a college or school and are willing to lend support to programs and students.

Feelings of connection and closeness to a social group.

Refers to a group of people who share some common interest.

A group of people with shared interests, living in the same area, supporting and interacting with one another.

A group of people that share particular characteristics, interactions, and/or ways of life.

A dynamic entity that is in a constant process of growth and development, and a containment structure that is built in such a way as to support creative action, interaction, and inner work. Community comes together because the members can identify with each other. A living community is in an ongoing process of culture and value development. Core to the philosophy of community is the valuing of the human dimension, its connections and growth.

A social category which exists when membership, influence, integration, and fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connections are simultaneously present either in relational or in territorial terms.

A formal or informal association of people that share the same goals and visions of a certain dimension of their lives.

Building rapport between students, teachers, and parents.

This refers to such groups as businesses or corporations, service agencies, sports clubs as well as cultural and civic organizations that have interest in the provision of sound education to learners. It also includes the municipality as well as philanthropists.

An amalgamation of people with related interests. Intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, goals, and a multitude of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the degree of adhesion within the group. Communities may meet to share information, to participate in shared projects, or to complete group tasks. What most characterizes a community is the pursuit of a common productive goal and sharing interaction in many ways.

A feeling that members have of sense of belonging, acceptance, and trust with the other members including mutual interdependence, interactivity, and shared expectations. (See Rovai, 2002)

A community is defined as people who share activities and values.

A group of people who coalesce or come together, with the conjoined mission towards a similarly agreed upon end. Within the bounds of this discussion, a community is the learning community that includes an instructor and the learners who have enrolled in a course experience.

A group of people having cultural, religious, ethnic or other characteristics in common.

A group of actors who share a collective identity that is based on the perception of having something in common, and who adjust some of their actions because of this identity.

A social group sharing common characteristics or interests, fostering a sense of belonging and mutual support.

A living together of people who share the same cultural heritage.

Mutual spaces with agreed-upon identities.

Refers to social groups located in a geographically-bounded area or to people who share practices, values, and interests. Having a geographical connotation leads many scholars to assume that local communities are more authentic, have little connection to online life, and offer richer possibilities for interaction than online arrangements. However, it is problematic to assume prior to investigation that social configurations located in small geographical areas are automatically more morally satisfying or communicatively rich than relationships and social groups that predominantly meet online.

A wide range of people who can support or be beneficiaries of the project. Multidisciplinary users who can provide feedback, different impressions, knowledge, or assistance for different steps of specific projects.

Relationships that exist between people with a common interest.

Networks of interpersonal ties, usually colocated, that provide sociability, support, information, and a sense of belonging and social identity.

An infrastructure that includes bulletin boards and chat rooms that provide virtual meeting places where consumers can explore common interests and develop a shared identity.

Group of human beings who have certain elements in common or who have the same interests.

The interactions among students and with the instructor of a course. The community is created through the distribution of power and voice in the class.

Community can be defined as a group of people that bring a sense of belonging and close-knit personal ties to one another. A community gives a sense of safety and familiarity, knowing that members are from a similar background and share social norms, customs, rituals, and values.

Is a group of people defined by more than one common characteristic that gives them the feeling of oneness that is expressed through a social relationship between them.

A community consists of interacting members, playing roles in order to satisfy a social purpose, and governed by social policies.

A group of individuals who come together due to a common interest or a shared focus on a particular item or idea.

A contested term since definitions of community vary with the speaker and the context. For the most part, in this chapter, at the term is used in the context of how geographically located community-based organizations function.

A group of people who come together and share common values to understand and build on the practices, values, and expertise of the collective; fosters both independent learners and interdependent relationships among learners. A sense of belonging is developed under this condition.

The group of people meets each other because they live nearby, not because they particularly want to be together. In a community, the members often have shared values and symbols.