Participating or not participating? A sociomaterial perspective of the embeddedness of online communities in everyday life

Harris, G; Abedin, B

Participating or not participating? A sociomaterial perspective of the embeddedness of online communities in everyday life

Harris, G Abedin, B

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Citation:: ACIS 2015 Proceedings - 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Harris, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Abedin, B https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-443X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ACIS 2015 Proceedings - 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2015	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780646953373	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/41293
dc.description.abstract	© 2015 authors. Online communities are increasingly becoming a venue for socializing, engaging in politics, and conducting business. Ironically, the same enabling social–media technology is encroaching into everyday life and reconfiguring relations of participation. Yet, while participation in online communities has been widely studied empirically, theoretical aspects of this social phenomenon need further investigation. This paper uses a sociomaterial perspective to further develop theoretical explanation of participation in online communities and the impacts of not participating online. A sociomaterial view of online community participation decenters the human participant and recognises the agency of technology, thus creating a richer understanding than epistemological paradigms. Using converging hermeneutic circles, the paper first reviews literature for evidence of sociomaterial applications to online community research, and then proposes a framework for expressing participation in online communities from a sociomaterial perspective. Subsequently, implications of the findings and the potential for future studies are discussed.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ACIS 2015 Proceedings - 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems	en_US
dc.title	Participating or not participating? A sociomaterial perspective of the embeddedness of online communities in everyday life	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	080608 Information Systems Development Methodologies	en_US
utslib.for	080603 Conceptual Modelling	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Information, Systems and Modelling
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - PERSWADE - Centre on Persuasive Systems for Wise Adaptive Living
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2015 authors. Online communities are increasingly becoming a venue for socializing, engaging in politics, and conducting business. Ironically, the same enabling social–media technology is encroaching into everyday life and reconfiguring relations of participation. Yet, while participation in online communities has been widely studied empirically, theoretical aspects of this social phenomenon need further investigation. This paper uses a sociomaterial perspective to further develop theoretical explanation of participation in online communities and the impacts of not participating online. A sociomaterial view of online community participation decenters the human participant and recognises the agency of technology, thus creating a richer understanding than epistemological paradigms. Using converging hermeneutic circles, the paper first reviews literature for evidence of sociomaterial applications to online community research, and then proposes a framework for expressing participation in online communities from a sociomaterial perspective. Subsequently, implications of the findings and the potential for future studies are discussed.

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