Forum - Participation cycles and emergent cultures in an online community

This paper is a case study of a successful web community, I Love Music, from its inception in 2000 through to 2005, when the author stopped running it.
  

Forum – Participation cycles and emergent cultures in an online community

Tom EwingResearch International

BACKGROUND

Introducing ILX

The ILX community was centred on a number of message boards. While message boards and forums are often included in discussions of Web 2.0, they in fact date from the earliest days of the internet: modern social media tools and networks such as Facebook did not invent interactivity or user-generated content; they simply made it more accessible. Message boards are still a very common part of the online experience: they remain the most useful means of enabling discussion online. From...

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