Again.
Early on in the Ellis, Oldridge, and Vasconcelos piece, they ask the question: can a virtual community be a real community? But I think that before that can be answered, we have to ask ourselves another, possibly more difficult question.
Just what is a real community? I think that the word community has become so shrouded in fable and illusion that most people are hard-pressed to say what it is - I know I am. So what is community? Or at least, what are some attributes that community should possess in order to be considered such.
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I think that community is an imagined boundary in which each person has identity, sense of beloning, emotional safety and mutual relationship based on trust. As I mentioned in posting, I think that trust is the most important element in building community. We might be relutant to push ourselves into having sense of community unless we have trust among the members.
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