Why Is Community News Different?

Table 1 shows my results after reading 30 newspaper articles. Ten from the LA times, ten from the Washington Post, and Ten from USA Today. After doing a content analysis of all thirty articles I found that the main difference in how the newspapers talk is the language and the quotes from the citizens in the Washington post. The way that the three newspaper companies talk about the DC sniper is different. After reading these newspaper articles each newspaper company talks about the events a little differently. The Washington Post articles tended to be the longest in length and went into much greater detail than the other two newspaper companies. The articles from USA Today were the shortest in length and did not go into much detail about the crimes committed. These articles just talked about the events and what happened with going into much detail about how this really affected the community. The LA Times was in the middle of these two newspaper companies. These articles went into more detail than the USA Today. Even though the numbers show that USA Today, the LA Times went into greater detail about the events. The Washington Post went into greater detail

The second major trend to be aware of is the virtual community - a social network of individuals who interact with each other without the constraints of geography, time zones, political or economic situations, weather, or demography all that matters is that they are able to come together to form a culture in which they

Abstract: Burton Speakman’s research focuses on how community functions in the digital sphere. The study of community grows in importance online as media transitions from being less vertical (mass) to more horizontal (person to person) delivery of information with the expectation of interaction and increased public influence due to social media and sharing technology.

ia a specific site and necessarily need an internet connection. An online community can act as an information system where members can post, comment on discussions, give advice or collaborate. Commonly, people communicate through social networking sites, chat rooms, forums, e-mail lists and discussion boards. People may also join online communities through video games, blogs and virtual worlds. Although teens have embraced countless ways of communicating with people due to their extreme engagement with social media. The biggest difference between social networks and online communities is that communities form out of groups of people from all different backgrounds and histories (Boyad D, 2014). From a social and anthropological standpoint, these are the most interesting to study because they consist of people who probably have never met yet are held together by a common interest or goal. People join online communities for all sorts of reasons – perhaps they share a preference for similar things or a similar lifestyle. Social networks, in the simplest of terms, are much like your offline social networks. We all have groups of friends, relatives, coworkers and acquaintances that we speak to and see on a regular basis. Social networks are inherently unique to each and every

Communities are all about groups of individuals who share something in common. This makes going on the internet seem like an odd way to find more communities, form new ones, or strengthen pre-existing ones. The internet however is full of communities. Communities can be based upon religion, location, ethnicity, an interest, or a personal matter. The internet itself is “a global distributed data communications network” (Kirmayer, Raikhel, & Rahimi, 2013, p. 166). This is what makes the internet so full of communities because communication is the key to putting multiple individuals with commonalities into communication, which is the basis of any community. Online communities differ from communities that exists off the web in a couple of

50), as community building typically requires face-to-face interactions and physical symbols through which people can associate and find shared experience. Though from the advent of the internet, humans began building online communities to connect with like-minded people across the globe, Krotoski suggests the threads binding these communities together are tenuous in the absence of tangible interactions. This quality makes online communities “difficult to measure and therefore to define objectively” (p. 51) implying that digital interactions within a community provide less substance for other members to adhere. Krotoski suggests this thin state of community provides little in social capital in that online, and people only know us by the information we provide, and not information passively gleaned from physical, non-verbal

Children now are so captivated with their new tablets and what new features are coming out, one does not see what is happening right before their eyes. Truthfully, social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are some virtual community sites capture today's society. Individuals become less social and pay more attention to what is happening on line rather than what is happening right in front of them. In the article The Many Ways Virtual Communities Impact Our World Offline by Jessica Lee, tells how cell phones and today’s technology affects social skills for individuals, group settings solutions for the issues caused by the technology.

The second concept I want to talk about is virtual communities. Virtual communities are social groups whose interactions are mediated through information technologies, particularly the internet. Like modernism, virtual communities are very dependent on technology and the internet. Since science and technology has advanced in the past decade, people don’t need to go to different places to meet different people and can meet others over different social media platforms or even video games. Sometimes, those people met over the internet can become very close friends. For example, I play a lot of video games and I have acquainted myself virtually with many people playing those games. Some of them I even ended up meeting in real life and are still friends with today. Virtual communities have become such a social norm, that soon, people will have friends all over the internet. I think the aspect of virtual communities is good for society, because it allows people to have a greater awareness of other cultures all over the world. With more insight of how other societies and cultures operate, there is a greater chance to expand one's own social

Our society has become entangled in a plight over the benefits and consequences of technology. People are nearly incapable of detaching themselves from their devices and connecting to the world around them. Online, they are able to display themselves in the best possible light and superficially communicate with others creating a false sense of reality and community. The argument that technology is beneficial because it allows people to easily access information and stay connected to people who are geographically far away is valid, but there are consequences for these conveniences that must be taken into account. Technology has reshaped the way people are able to communicate with one another both virtually and in person, it has led to a lack of deep connections, and it has allowed people to masquerade as anyone they choose.

A ‘virtual community’ is a type of imagined community and is a difficult concept to define; the ambiguous nature of this concept is highlighted by the many definitions created by researchers. A Virtual Community is when “Individuals communicate and form a relationship with each other in a computer mediated space with the use of technology".

Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others (Ellison, 2007). These sites could be used for work related situation, romance, connecting with individuals with shared interest, or creating a connection amongst college students. Facebook enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate ‘‘friends’’ who can post comments on each other’s pages, and view each other’s profiles (Ellison, 2007). Individuals can write on the wall of friends, send private message, comment on posts, as well as chat via instant messaging. Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Ellison, 2007).

The study of media-based interaction started long before the Internet by looking at feedback as a concept (Wiener, 1948; Shannon & Weaver, 1949; Kiousis, 2002). Ultimately, online story comments online connect to the idea of feedback (Wiener, 1948; Nordlund, 1978). As it relates to digital environments people have been more likely to seek feedback online compared to those engaged in person-to-person conversations (Ang & Cummings, 1994). In addition, feedback is one method that community media outlets could use to provide cohesive representation of the community (Lowrey, Brozana, & Mackay, 2008). Feedback loops represent the pattern of communication where journalists produced content and then a member of the public responded, this version

Dholakia, Bagozzi, and Pearo (2004) recognized some of the main features of virtual communities. The human desire for connection has created online or virtual communities. There is a main difference from physical communities in that in this type people meet face to face and then they maintain a relationship while in online communities people-users form first online

This report outlines the degree to which the increasing digitisation on society is enabling a rise in connectivity amongst peoples, community and society as has never before been seen in any other era. The below argument focuses on the use of social media and online communities as a growing form of interconnectedness and the shift in the traditional form of

Small towns might reduce people’s willingness to comment even if anonymity is technologically possible because some might believe their attitudes are easily identifiable (Tanis & Postmes, 2007). The more people interact the more information about themselves they provide even when anonymous (Joinson, 2001; Tanis & Postmes, 2007). While anonymity does make people feel more comfortable in commenting (Meyer & Speakman, 2016), people can at times identify others through their ideas or language even without a name (Joinson, 2001; Tanis & Postmes, 2007). Anonymity may be an idea that finds support in numbers, and small communities simply might not possess the necessary populations for people to feel able to hide in the background regardless of if they the comment might occur in a community of place, virtual community or hybrid community. However, it is also important to remember that regardless of website design or other factors, there exists only a small percentage of readers willing to comment online (Chung & Nah, 2009; Larsson, 2011).