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...