scholarly journals EDUCATION THROUGH ART IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: STRENGTHENING RELIGIOUS VALUES THROUGH ILLUSTRATION ARTWORKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Rahina Nugrahani ◽  
Triyanto ◽  
Muhammad Ibnan Syarif ◽  
Tjetjep Rohendi Rohidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Virtual Ethnography ◽  
Islamic Values

Purpose: The article analyzes the illustration artworks produced by Virtual Community Hijabographic as a media to disseminate religious values. Hijabographic as one of the Muslim women's communities in Indonesia is one of the pioneer virtual communities that creates various illustration artworks aimed to perform da’wah on social media Instagram, also as a media to ingrain Islamic values. Methodology: The primary method is virtual ethnography; we use it to uncover social interactions between members of the Hijabographic community that creates a natural response and a stimulus for community members to express it in the form of illustration artworks published through social media. Result: The results showed that the illustration artworks by Hijabographic are medium to achieve educational goals, in this case, is religious education. Illustration artwork is not merely created to fulfill the purpose of art, but also as a tool to find the self-fulfillment of illustrators in performing da’wah (proselytization), transmitting Islamic values and to foster awareness of other Muslim females to become pious individuals. Applications: This research can be used by virtual communities, scholars and visual arts learners. Novelty/Originality: Building on the insight that illustration artworks by virtual community Hijabographic become a new model to perform da’wah on social media. These illustration artworks influence a member's aesthetic experience and personal's understanding of strengthening Islamic values.

scholarly journals Utilization of Virtual Community as a Communication Media For Pokemon Go Game Group (JPR) Using Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Yudha Pradhana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Group Communication ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Depth Interviews

Basically, humans are social creatures that can’t live without interference from other humans, or it can be said that humans have the instinct to live in groups or communities. Groups or communities are formed because of shared goals and the existence of group communication between members in them. Along with advancement in technology, especially in the digital era at this time, groups or communities are not only intertwined in the real world but also in cyberspace or virtual. Virtual communities use social media to carry out group communication in it. This study aims to determine the use of virtual communities as communication media for Pokemon Go game groups in Jakarta, namely Jakarta Pogo Raiders (JPR) through social media Instagram and WhatsApp. This research uses a qualitative approach, researcher use the literature review and in-depth interviews methods with informants including initiators and members of the JPR community. The results of the study indicate that the group communication media used such as Instagram and WhatsApp groups are very effectives in delivering information between community members. The message construction conveyed through social media is understood and understood by all members of the JPR community. The success of JPR in utilizing social media as a media for group communication is marked by the comfort felt by members to remain and join the JPR community. Consciously and voluntarily they join the JPR community by taking benefits that they have gained while in that community. Another success is marked by the increasing number of community members who have joined JPR to date. Pada dasarnya manusia adalah makhluk sosial yang tidak bisa hidup tanpa adanya campur tangan dari manusia lainnya, atau bisa dikatakan manusia memiliki naluri untuk hidup berkelompok atau berkomunitas. Kelompok atau komunitas terbentuk karena adanya kesamaan tujuan dan adanya komunikasi kelompok antar anggota di dalamnya. Seiring dengan berkembang pesatnya teknologi khususnya di era digital pada saat ini, kelompok atau komunitas tidak hanya terjalin di dunia nyata saja tetapi juga di dunia maya atau virtual. Komunitas virtual menggunakan media sosial untuk melakukan komunikasi kelompok di dalamnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pemanfaatan komunitas virtual sebagai media komunikasi kelompok game Pokemon Go yang berada di Jakarta, yaitu Jakarta Pogo Raiders (JPR) melalui media sosial Instagram dan Whatsapp. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, peneliti menggunakan metode tinjauan pustaka dan wawancara mendalam dengan informan di antaranya penggagas dan anggota komunitas JPR. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media komunikasi kelompok yang digunakan seperti Instagram dan grup Whatsapp sangat efektif dalam penyampaian informasi antar anggota komunitas. Kontruksi pesan yang disampaikan melalui media sosial tersebut dimengerti dan dipahami oleh seluruh anggota komunitas JPR. Keberhasilan JPR dalam memanfaatkan media sosial sebagai media komunikasi kelompok ditandai dengan kenyamanan yang dirasakan anggota untuk tetap berada dan tergabung di dalam komunitas JPR. Secara sadar dan sukarela mereka bergabung dengan komunitas JPR dengan memperhitungkan keuntungan yang telah didapatkan selama berada di dalam komunitas tersebut. Keberhasilan lainnya ditandai dengan semakin banyaknya jumlah anggota komunitas yang bergabung dengan JPR hingga saat ini.

Eksistensi Media Sosial,Youtube, Instagram dan Whatsapp Ditengah Pandemi Covid-19 Dikalangan Masyarakat Virtual Indonesia

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Hendra Junawan ◽  
Nurdin Laugu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Data Collection Method ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World

Introduction. This article discusses the existence of social media YouTube, Instagram and Watsapp in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic among virtual communities in Indonesia. The development of social media is increasing every year, especially in the conditions of the corona virus outbreak. The development of social media in Indonesia has experienced a very significant increase, it can be seen that Indonesia is in the 3rd position of social media users in the world. Data Collection Method. The method used in this article is by using the literature method by reading literature related to discussion and it can be analyzed that the existence of social media such as YouTube in the midst of the Covid pandemic has experienced a surge in users of around 88% and is then followed by Whatsapp social media with the number of accesses of 84% and Instagram with 79%. Results and Discussions. Based on the data above, we can see the development and level of existence of several social media which is frequently accessed by the world's population during the Covid 19 pandemic. This development has certainly experienced a very clear penetration of internet users among the Indonesian virtual community. Conclusions. the development of social media in Indonesia and globally has increased very significantly. The existence of social media which was popular during the Covid-19 pandemic, which placed YouTube as the first media that was very popular with the highest number of users in the world.

Virtual Hate Communities in the 21st Century

2011 ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Glenn T. Tsunokai ◽  
Allison R. McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Function

Technological innovations in computer-mediated communication have helped hate groups to transform themselves into virtual communities. Likeminded individuals are now able to unite from all parts of the globe to promote hatred against visible minorities and other out-groups. Through their online interactions, a sense of place is often created. In this chapter, we explore the content and function of online hate communities. Since bigotry tends to be the cornerstone of virtual hate communities, we highlight the legal debate surrounding the regulation of Internet hate speech; in particular, we address the question: Does the First Amendment protect virtual community members who use the Internet to advocate hate? Next, using data collected from the largest hate website, Stormfront.org, we also investigate how Stormfront members utilize interactive media features to foster a sense of community. Finally, we direct our attention to the future of online hate communities by outlining the issues that need to be further investigated.

Online Communities and Community Building

2011 ◽  
pp. 2893-2898
Author(s):  
Martin C. Kindsmüller ◽  
Sandro Leuchter ◽  
Leon Urbas
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Bulletin Boards ◽  
Real Community ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tacit Assumptions

“Online community” is one of today’s buzzwords. Even though superficially it is not hard to understand, the term has become somewhat vague while being extensively used within the e-commerce business. Within this article, we refer to online community as being a voluntary group of users who partake actively in a certain computer-mediated service. The term “online community” is preferred over the term “virtual community,” as it denotes the character of the community more accurately: community members are interacting online as opposed to face to face. Furthermore, the term “virtual community” seems too unspecific, because it includes other communities that only exist virtually, whereas an online community in our definition is always a real community in the sense that community members know that they are part of the community. Nevertheless, there are other reasonable definitions of online community. An early and most influencing characterization (which unfortunately utilizes the term “virtual community”) was coined by Howard Rheingold (1994), who wrote: “…virtual communities are cultural aggregations that emerge when enough people bump into each other often enough in cyberspace. A virtual community is a group of people […] who exchanges words and ideas through the mediation of computer bulletin boards and networks” (p. 57). A more elaborated and technical definition of online community was given by Jenny Preece (2000), which since then, has been a benchmark for developers. She stated that an online community consists of four basic constituents (Preece, 2000, p. 3): 1. Socially interacting people striving to satisfy their own needs. 2. A shared purpose, such as interest or need that provides a reason to cooperate. 3. Policies in the form of tacit assumptions, rituals, or rules that guide the community members’ behavior. 4. A technical system that works as a carrier that mediates social interaction. Not explicitly mentioned in this characterization but nevertheless crucial for our aforementioned definition (and not in opposition to Preece’s position) is voluntary engagement.

Effects of social capital on online knowledge sharing: positive and negative perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Ping Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relationship Continuity ◽  
Complementary Resources

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual model of how both the benefits and risks of social capital influence online knowledge sharing among virtual community members towards enhancing members’ relationship continuity and virtual community reputations. In addition, this study addresses the effects of complementary resources on knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach – The structural equation modelling approach was applied to estimate the conceptual model by using survey data from virtual community members. A total of 626 valid questionnaires were collected. Findings – The empirical results showed that most of the research hypotheses were supported. The benefits of social capital and complementary resources have a positive effect on knowledge sharing, thereby strengthening relationship continuity and community reputation. Furthermore, the risk of social capital has a negative effect on knowledge sharing, as expected. Originality/value – A review of the literature reveals a lack of studies focusing on both the positive and negative influences of social capital on online knowledge sharing. This study therefore contributes to a comprehensive perspective for understanding online knowledge sharing in virtual communities.

scholarly journals Motivations for Virtual Community Participation in Social Commerce: Customers and Sellers in the Malay Lifestyle Blogging Community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Syahida Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Social

<p>Although the field of social commerce has gained a lot of attention recently, there are many areas that still remain unexplored. A new phenomenon emerging within virtual communities is a blurring between social and commercial activities. To date, scholars in the social commerce literature have either focused on customers in the community or on medium to large scale businesses. There has been little research on social commerce communities which include micro-businesses despite their rapid growth in South East Asian countries.  This study explores a social commerce community of Malay lifestyle bloggers, who are a subset of the Malaysian blogosphere community. Bloggers begin by using the personal genre, some then move on to set up online businesses using their personal blogs as a platform. The characteristic of blogging’s ease of use means there are low barriers to starting a small business, merging blogging and commerce. This changes the nature of the community by bringing in a new relationship, as well as relationships between bloggers and readers, there are now also relationships between sellers and customers.  This study aims to understand the motivations for both sellers and customers, and how their relationships as bloggers and readers influence their participation in social commerce within the same community. To address the research objective, 20 sellers and 21 customers who also play a role as bloggers or readers were interviewed. In-depth interviews using laddering and semi-structured interview techniques were carried out to explore social commerce behaviour, the perceived consequences, and goals or values of participation. In addition, observation was also conducted on the platform used by the sellers. Data was coded using NVivo whilst the themes arising from the coding process were transformed into an implication matrix and hierarchical value map using Ladderux software.  This study found that strong ties within the community, influenced by homophily and the sense of virtual community, motivated the customers to participate in commercial activities in order to obtain their goals which included a sense of obligation, loyalty, satisfaction and self-esteem. The relationships influenced customers to trust each other, provide social support and made purchasing products more convenient. Sellers were influenced by the convenience of using social media and the social support provided by the customers which helped them to achieve their goals which are profit and business sustainability.  This study contributes to social commerce theory by highlighting an underexplored type of social commerce setting and addressing how trust can be transferred from social to commercial activities. The findings provide a useful insight for businesses, regardless of their size, to build an understanding of the need to create a good relationship with their customers. For macro-businesses, this model can be used to identify what is lacking in their social media marketing strategy.</p>

Understanding Knowledge-Sharing Motivation, Incentive Mechanisms, and Satisfaction in Virtual Communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Shen Chen ◽  
Shih-Feng Chang ◽  
Chih-Hsing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Incentive Mechanism ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Incentive Mechanisms ◽  
Knowledge Sharing Behavior ◽  
The Incentive Mechanism ◽  
Sharing Behavior

Virtual communities have gained popularity as a means for individuals to learn and share knowledge. However, knowledge-sharing motivation, incentive mechanisms, and satisfaction in these communities have not been examined in detail. Using survey data from 169 community members, we investigated the conditions under which motivation, incentive mechanisms, and satisfaction affect knowledge-sharing behavior. We found that the incentive mechanism is a significant predictor of a virtual community member's motivation to obtain knowledge, and that the incentive mechanism and motivation do not positively affect a member's satisfaction that causes him/her to engage willingly in knowledge sharing with others in virtual communities.

Virtual Social Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Sunanda Sangwan ◽  
Chong Guan ◽  
Judy A. Siguaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Share Information

Multi-user virtual communities have become an accepted fundamental component of communication whereby community members share information and knowledge for mutual learning or problem solving.Virtual communities in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) have evolved into active social networks, formulating an alternative social existence and this phenomenon warrants further investigations. In these virtual social networks (VSNs), member participation is essential for their success. Therefore, developing knowledge on how to manage and sustain participation of members in VSNs fills a gap in our academic understanding of the dynamics underpinning the processes of virtual community development. This article aims to address these issues by extending the theory of sense of community into a virtual context (SOVC) and by integrating it with other communication theory of U&G.

Representing Virtual Communities for Advanced Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 402-404
Author(s):  
Miguel-Angel Sicilia ◽  
Elena Sanchez-Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Tower Of Babel

The Semantic Web vision described by Berners-Lee, Hendler and Lassila (2001) represents an approach to enhancing the current World Wide Web with machine-understandable semantics. The essential idea is that Web resources identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) can be described by metadata with the purpose of enabling automated processing. The precision of logics-based description would allow for the creation of tools that do not rely on natural language processing as current search tools, thus ideally removing the problems associated with ambiguity and implicitness in natural language. Metadata requires shared semantics in the context of an open Web, so that the proliferation of descriptions and vocabularies do not end up in a Tower of Babel. Ontologies provide the support for the shared representation of such semantics, and ontology mapping procedures could resolve the issues of semantic interoperability in case of disparate representations over the same domain. Ontologies act as descriptions of semantic domains used to express metadata records according to previously agreed definitions. Based on the infrastructure provided by ontologies and semantic metadata, the Semantic Web vision rests in the provision of distributed functionality built on intelligent agents and Web services. Since a virtual community is no other thing than a phenomenon that takes place on the Web, its elements are thus subject to being described by Semantic Web metadata, so that community-specific Semantic Web functionality could enhance the communicational elements that are part of communities. A typical scenario for such functionality is that of a filtering service that delivers recommended resources for community members according to the interests shared by members with similar interests. Other scenarios may result in the adaptation of the shared space inhabited by the community members; for example, member lists may be reordered according to the strength of social relationships, or messages could be circulated according to the network of social relationships (Sicilia & García, 2004). The Semantic Web opens many perspectives to create richer environments for virtual communities, and some specific technologies have already been created to deal with some of the definitional aspects of communities. Here we sketch the main elements that should be taken into account in developing experimental applications of Semantic Web technologies to the specifics of virtual communities.

Virtual Communities as Contributors for Digital Objects Metadata Generation

2014 ◽  
pp. 1182-1198
Author(s):  
Joana Sócrates Dantas ◽  
Regina Melo Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Content Description ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Metadata Generation

Description of online digital content is currently extremely necessary to facilitate a diverse amount of resource sharing over the internet. Many times, content is shared and reused within a virtual community. Virtual communities tend to have their own specific needs of resources, and tend to use a specific vocabulary to describe content. Members of virtual communities also tend to have specific motivations for participating and sharing information and knowledge with other members. In this chapter, the authors discuss the benefits of community members generating content description by analyzing the current literature on the matter. Then, the authors present two studies they have held where they assess the metadata generated by users of an IPTV system and by members of two different virtual communities.

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