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Community Embodied: Validating the Subjective Performance of an Online Class

Community Embodied: Validating the Subjective Performance of an Online Class

Sergey Rybas
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466603127|ISBN10: 1466603127|EISBN13: 9781466603134
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch008
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Rybas, Sergey. "Community Embodied: Validating the Subjective Performance of an Online Class." Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories, edited by Honglei Li, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 124-141. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch008

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Rybas, S. (2012). Community Embodied: Validating the Subjective Performance of an Online Class. In H. Li (Ed.), Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories (pp. 124-141). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch008

Chicago

Rybas, Sergey. "Community Embodied: Validating the Subjective Performance of an Online Class." In Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories, edited by Honglei Li, 124-141. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch008

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Abstract

Problematizing the historical, philosophical, and social foundations of online communities, this project lays out a theoretical framework of subjective performance in virtual spaces and uses it to examine interactions in one long-distance college class. The findings of this cyberethnographic study suggests that even though the collective perceptions of community remain relatively stable, yet idealized and evasive, the actual individual manifestations of online community are limited to the subjective performances of the members and are inseparable from their complex identities and literacies. Therefore, considering the subjective performances of online community is vital for understanding its goals, practices, principles, and limitations and critical for the assessment of its success.

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