From Offline to Online Communities
As emerges from previous section, definitions of a community are diverse and, at
times, vague. Despite this, the concept of community is frequently adopted in the
digital era to describe social practices in cyberspace. In fact, individuals can share their common interests by gathering virtually in the online communities associated
with social bookmarking sites, blogs and forums, regardless of their physical location.
The absence of a spatial environment has not only complicated how a community
have to be defined of the Web, but has also raised issues as to how
communities in online environments are to be operationalized for detection and
investigation (Zhang and Jacob 2012 ).
For these reasons, a main question we have to address when dealing with the
concept of online community is if an online community is a reality or a virtuality
with respect to classical ‘offline’ communities.
From Offline to Online CommunitiesAs emerges from previous section, definitions of a community are diverse and, attimes, vague. Despite this, the concept of community is frequently adopted in thedigital era to describe social practices in cyberspace. In fact, individuals can share their common interests by gathering virtually in the online communities associatedwith social bookmarking sites, blogs and forums, regardless of their physical location.The absence of a spatial environment has not only complicated how a communityhave to be defined of the Web, but has also raised issues as to howcommunities in online environments are to be operationalized for detection andinvestigation (Zhang and Jacob 2012 ).For these reasons, a main question we have to address when dealing with theconcept of online community is if an online community is a reality or a virtualitywith respect to classical ‘offline’ communities.
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