Geography is one dimension on which communities differ.
Although brand communities have been defined as nongeographically
bounded (Muniz and O’Guinn 2001), they
may be either geographically concentrated (Holt 1995) or
scattered (Boorstin 1974). They may even exist in the
entirely nongeographical space of the Internet (Granitz and
Ward 1996; Kozinets 1997; Tambyah 1996). Studies have
tended to be situated statically on the dimension of geographic concentration, even if they consider multiple geographies.
What can be learned if this dimension is treated
dynamically? For example, how does a normally scattered
brand community respond to temporary geographic concentrations,
such as in the case of a brandfest (McAlexander
and Schouten 1998)?