网络社区及其交往特点

Community in cyberspace and its features in intercourse

网络社区是对现实社区的引喻,无论是其功能还是组织形式和现实社区都存有明显差别,不再具有地域含义而变成了一个数字化技术支撑的拟想社会空间。在网络社区中,网民之间的人际交往既与现实的人际交往有联系,又有明显的区别。本文试图揭示网络社区的特质、功能及其中的人际交往特点。

Community in cyberspace is in allusion to real community. There are evident discrepancies in the function or organizational form between cybercommunities and real communities. In other words, cybercommunities have no longer the meaning of an area and has been becoming an imaginative social space supported by computer networks. The interpersonal interaction between netizens in cybercommunities is both related to and different from those in real communities. This paper presents the characteristics and function of cybercommunities and the features of interpersonal interactions in it.