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The Case for Community in Online Spaces
Taking Back Connection
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2023
Summary
Many believe that our sense of community is dying as the result of our digitized world. In this book, Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell refutes this claim and presents a case that connection is thriving in online spaces as people share stories, practice vulnerability, and build communities. From memes to Reddit to Facebook, Dunbar-Treadwell offers perspectives that combine relevant scholarship with examples from her research, pop culture, and society. She addresses some of the factors that contribute to disconnection like political division and dehumanization, while also painting a picture of a society that desperately desires connection and may not always know how to find it. Ultimately, this book illustrates how community and connection have changed over time, how they are currently alive and well, while offering some important practical advice for how readers can consider their own choices in online spaces to help them find the community that they seek. Scholars of communication, media studies, and political science will find this book of particular interest.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-3467-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-3468-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
114
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Defining Community No access Pages 5 - 14
Revolutions, Innovation, and the Evolution of Community No access Pages 15 - 30
The Hyperpersonal and Connection No access Pages 31 - 50
Political Bunkers and Common Enemy Intimacy No access Pages 51 - 70
Community as a Place for Authenticity and Belonging No access Pages 71 - 84
The Case for Community in Online Spaces and Hope for the Future No access Pages 85 - 98
