• DocumentCode
    2640440
  • Title

    The power relation in virtual communities — Taking “Chinese Muslim Community” as the example

  • Author

    Shaohua Huang ; Hongcheng Shen

  • Author_Institution
    Ningbo Inst. of Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Ningbo, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-17 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    As a new community, the virtual community is rising along with the development of Internet. Netizens establish and develop new forms of power relation through online interaction. In the condition of body absence, reconstructing rules, argument of opinions and collectively resisting become the main ways of power relation. Cyberpower is a flowing power. Its body, object and ways become uncertain.
  • Keywords
    Internet; social aspects of automation; Chinese Muslim Community; Internet; cyberpower; power relation; virtual community; Avatars; Communities; Cyberspace; Internet; Planning; Presses; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Web Society (SWS), 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6356-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SWS.2010.5607484
  • Filename
    5607484