• DOI:10.1007/s10676-008-9153-y
Corpus ID: 33207414

Pernicious virtual communities: Identity, polarisation and the Web 2.0

@article{Parsell2008PerniciousVC,
  title={Pernicious virtual communities: Identity, polarisation and the Web 2.0},
  author={M. Parsell},
  journal={Ethics and Information Technology},
  year={2008},
  volume={10},
  pages={41-56}
}

M. Parsell

Published 2008

Sociology

Ethics and Information Technology

The importance of online social spaces is growing. New Web 2.0 resources allow the creation of social networks by any netizen with minimal technical skills. These communities can be extremely narrowly focussed. In this paper, I identify two potential costs of membership in narrowly focussed virtual communities. First, that narrowly focussed communities can polarise attitudes and prejudices leading to increased social cleavage and division. Second, that they can lead sick individuals to revel in… CONTINUE READING

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