Community Participation

1. What is a community?
   • Group of people who share similar opinions or common interests,
   • Group of people trying to achieve a common goal
   • Group of people are geographically close
2. Why do we create them?
   • Keep up to date with events
   • Providing help and support
   • To learn and gain more knowledge, develop skills
   • Getting invited – social relationships
   • Achieve common goal
   • to share – physical or skill based things
   • People enjoy being part of a group
3. What are the some examples of local communities?
   • Neighbourhood Watch
   • Sports Groups
   • Churches or church groups
   • Hobby club
   • Charity groups
   • NMIT – Saniti
   • Political parties
   • Generational groups e.g. Grey Power, Pre-School
   • Sexual orientation groups etc etc….
4. What characterizes a community? (e.g. good things, bad things,…)
   • People know about it – must be more than one person
   • People recognising who else is in the community
   • Means of identification
   • Rules (often unwritten) that everyone follows
   • Can become closed/cliquey
   • Become fragmented and broken and fractured
5. What communities do you belong?
   • Meet-up groups (python)
   • Board games
   • ITP
   • company/business
   • Martial arts
   • AA-non
6. Pick one of those communities:
   • Why did you join?
     • Game guild
     • Facebook group
     • Google+ group
     • Software Forum
     • Slack group
     • Subreddit over-watch
     • Fan groups
     • Trade-Me
     • Newspaper commentators
     • LinkedIn group
     • Photography on Tumbler

1. • How long have you been part of it?
   • How active are you?
2. What online communities do you belong to?

• Why did you join?
• How long have you been part of it?
• How active are you?

1. What differences are there between physical and online communities?

• Online –
  • instant connection and asynchronous

1. • •  less thoughtful?
     • probably anonymous/how you act is how you are judged
     • Get to know people from the inside out
     • More convenient
     • privacy may be an issue
     • Global
     • Often discrete

• Physical –  
  • • • synchronous gatherings
      • careful what you say  
      • usually local
      • You will often be known in several communities (overlap)

• Sometimes Online is an extension of Physical 
  • Similarities
    • Code of conduct – rules
    • Your reputation (may follow you from group to group)
    • Sub-groups often form around specific interests or activities
    • Can be made to feel unwelcome
    • Requires effort on your part to participate
    • Time-consuming
    • Fun, worthwhile, place to grow/share your knowledge/expertise
    • Humans like to ‘belong’ !

Assessment 2 

• The name of the Community I joined in is Anime. This group is about recent anime, about characters in anime, about which anime is watching, and etc.
• Purposes:
  • This is sort of family type of group regarding anime. Everyone in this group talks about their thoughts and idea about a particular anime and try to put their opinion as best as they can. They don’t have any particular boundaries regarding anime. This community is about bonding with anonymous people who are anime freak. The main goal of this community is to entertain each other about anime or its characters and staying on the same page. 
• Activities:
  • The main activity associated with this group is to have fun. Anyone can be talking about a certain character of anime or certain anime and it is pointless but it is all about having fun. The main activity associated with these group is to gather a group of people and to talk about certain criteria or scene from an anime. As such:  In this conversation one of the admins posted chose two different characters from two different anime, and then asked the audience to choose the favorite between these two. So, we can say this is about entertainment where people talk about a particular topic. 
  • To put another example:In another post one of the admin was talking about Midoria from “My Hero Academia” , anime where the main character was really fascinated and intrigued with the female character. So, the admin was trying to have fun talking about it. Its not important but it seemed really fun when a group of people talk about it and post their personal thoughts on regard to this matter. 
  • The main activities involved in this group is to have fun and talk within a particular topic. 
• Being a part of this group, I really feel amazing. I am a big fan of anime ever since I was kid, and I have fascination from different characters in anime. I know there are lot of people who loves anime, however most of them feel really uncomfortable talking about anime. But, when I am on this community, Anime, I really feel welcome and it sounds so amazing when a group of anonymous people talking about the same thing.   While having fun in this Group, I often involve myself in the conversation in this group. The topic is usually raised based on any matter and trust me nonetheless, anyone would can entertain themselves while participating in anonymous conversation. sometimes the topic is vague but it doesn’t hurt to comment. I will say it is an amazing experience while participating in the conversation from random people.

 

• Written Rules:

The group is quite with certain aspects and 10 rules which are made by the admins and we have to be clear while being added to the group and this rules are absolute. I have observed people being kicked out of the group because they are unwilling to follow these 10 rules set up by the admin. These 10 rules include:

#1: ENGLISH POSTS ONLY! 

#2: Do not “ADVERTISE” your business on this group. We are “not interested” in your career, pages and groups. SHARING links ,Sharing page memes unless its an interesting videos or Anime reviews or very important news, personal pages, ADD ME ADD my mom my dad my dog etc etc,selfies, and app posts are strictly prohibited–Any form of ADVERTISEMENTS

#3: All opinions will be treated with mutual respect, unless they violate the mentioned rules. Treat your fellow ANIME group members with that same respect.

#4: If a single individual starts a discussion that all other members disagree with, it may, at the discretion of the group admin, be considered trolling. Trolls will be boot ed out of the group.

#5: If a member personally attacks another member with words that are harmful, threatening or not in-line with our mutual respect policy, that member will receive a warning. Three warnings and you’re out.

#6: Please stick to the mission statement of our group. Irrelevant content does not belong here it belongs on other pages.

#7: Do not post graphic or disturbing photos, videos and other media in this group. If you are not sure about the content that you want to post, PM THE GROUP ADMIN 

#8: If someone mentions you by name please respond directly to that person on the same post. If the comment is inflammatory please report it to the group admin.

#9: Think before you post! – what goes up can never really come down. Respect the privacy of others!

#10: Be aware that posting more than 5 discussions on the same day needs to be justified to the group admin, or it will be considered spam.

• Unwritten Rules:

Being a part of this group for a long period of time, is that this group is pretty much family type and people in this group mostly treat each other with respect and value their choice. It is more or less a family type of group where the conversation are brief and polite. Mostly people try to comment through this group good, honest, and formal remarks. 

In this group mostly people use formal English, however usually lot of people post the images to converse with different backgrounds of people and also they emojis to have a conversation with the community within the group.

● Descriptions of at least two occasions on which you participated with the group. This could include (but is not limited to):
○ screenshots of discussions you have been part of,
○ comments you have posted

This is the link to the video that shows how I involve myself in group activity of Anime.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CeymV8rMtjlS_ymYvfOqwcQxs8vD5HD1