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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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Imagining the Wikipedia community: What do Wikipedia authors mean when they write about their ‘community’?:
TL;DR: The computer-mediated conversation between editors was investigated using Grounded Theory procedures and yielded an empirically grounded theory of the users’ self-understanding of the Wikipedia community as ethos-action community.
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The invention of transitions: History as a symbolic site for discursive struggles over organizational change:
TL;DR: In this article, a case study presented in this paper combines a historian's account of a newspaper's history with an ethnographic account of the use of history prevalent among newspaper editors, showing how organizational actors use traces of a collective past in their version of "the" history to win consent for change and to counter competing views.
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Competitive sport and the construction of place identity in rural Australia
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TL;DR: The authors explored the role of competitive sport in the construction of place identities, focusing on the way in which local narratives, practices and symbols are used to build an apparently shared "sense of place".
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Negotiating Internet Governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, unpacking the complexity of more than 300 governance arrangements, influential debates, and political negotiations over four decades.
Virtually religious: myth, ritual and community in World of Warcraft
TL;DR: In an age dominated by media, religion has been assumed to be resurging, albeit in different forms, and as discussed by the authors hypothesises that the massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game World of Warcraft, with its powerful ludic, narrative and fa
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