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New Communication Technologies change the Nature of our Communities
Our community, before the emergence of new communication technologies such as television and internet, was referred to as the connection between people who live in one place. People would know what is going on between the members of the community through words of mouth or their own encounters. They would develop the sense of belonging to a community by having conversation face-to-face, gathering together in an event or participating in some forms of activity. However, since the rise of the new communication technologies, the nature of the community has changed. People no longer form a community based on physical appearances. Belonging to a community now means that people share the same information despite their physical locations and are connected through these new forms of communication. This essay explains that television and internet, as new communication technologies, create new types of community. ... Many may view television watching as an anti-social activity that separate people from their community. ... The new type of community that has been created is based on whom people are connected with not whom they live near. ... The community that these Chinese-Australian people interact with is mainly other Hong Kong immigrants who also watch TVBJ. ... She belongs to the community that is linked over by satellite televisions not people in her neighborhood. ... Virtual community means a group of people whose interactions are performed through computer-mediated communication. Online chat room is an example of virtual community. People who participate in the chat room dedicate themselves as belonging to a community that does not exist in physical world. ... Darling (2004: 515) observed that “participants in the online community perceived themselves as belonging to a close-knit group”. ... The fans of this actor have formed a community that consists of members who are from 14 different countries and four continents and, as Darling (2004: 510) noted, virtual interactions extend beyond “the boundaries of the geographically-limited communities”.
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