consolidation and centralization of the social internet<\/a> into global platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, it is not clear that the ideal of an internet community in which individuals can transcend cultural, economic, political, and religious barriers to associate and identify around common interests, issues, and objects have continued resonance today. We will examine questions such as: How does users\u2019 sense of community vary with the size, subject matter, and global reach of a particular site or network? How do network effects, competition, personalization, and economic, geopolitical, and language factors interact with the success of online communities? What does success mean for an online community today?<\/p>\nThese wide-ranging questions deserve our attention, and we are beginning by examining the vast body of research about online community across the disciplines: computer science, sociology and social science, communications theory, social psychology, human-computer interaction (HCI), and economics, among other disciplines. Further research will involve partnerships with researchers, academic institutions, platforms, and users.<\/p>\n
There may not be conclusive answers for how communities can best enable their users to speak and to be heard. But we do believe that as the internet grows and changes, we need to understand how the basic relationships that define us as humans — power, identity, speech, and community — shape our online experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","content_type":[7251],"area-of-focus":[76,77,78],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/78688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insight"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/78688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=78688"},{"taxonomy":"area-of-focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area-of-focus?post=78688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}