E0033 TikTok Tribulations
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What happens if your community disappears? How do online groups deal with the challenges of maintaining their social ties across fickle and fleeting platforms? And are there lessons to be learned by the TikTok creators from the online MMO communities that were shut down in the early 2000s? Bibliography: Bartle, R. (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders Press. Granovetter, M. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press. Koster, R. (2004). A theory of fun for game design. Paraglyph Press. Rheingold, H. (2000). The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. MIT Press. Sennett, R. (2012). Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation. Yale University Press. The Matrix Online Videos—Giant Bomb. (2012, July 12). https://web.archive.org/web/20120712062536/http://www.giantbomb.com/the-matrix-online/61-9124/videos/ There Is Another: The End Of Star Wars Galaxies - Part 01 - Giant Bomb. (2012, January 7). https://web.archive.org/web/20120107150559/http://www.giantbomb.com/there-is-another-the-end-of-star-wars-galaxies-part-01/17-5439/ von Hippel, E. (2005). Democratizing Innovation. The MIT Press. Links: City of Heroes: Homecoming Implausipod Episode 16 - Spreadable Media The Implausi.blog Newsletter Reach out to the show Support the show
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What happens if your community disappears? How do online groups deal with the challenges of maintaining their social ties across fickle and fleeting platforms? And are there lessons to be learned by the TikTok creators from the online MMO communities that were shut down in the early 2000s? Bibliography: Bartle, R. (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders Press. Granovetter, M. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. Jenkins, H. (2006). Converg...
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