Definition of Community

In my opinion, when defining another community, you look at observable objects and values. You look at what people wear, how they talk/interact, what they do in their day-to-day activities, type of community (whether college, high-school, housing, or organizations, business or personal). Then you can begin to form ideas and belief's about what type of community this is. For example, when looking at the University at Albany, you see that it is a college full of diversity. This is UAlbany's mainstream community, but then their are hundreds of small communities that form between friends, class mates, professors, and employees. You might notice that similar people are "grouped" together or people communicate in different ways according to who they hang out with. In the reading but Ellison, Steinfield, and Lampe, we see that each type of social media is it's own community as well: Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. All of these websites have formed their own community. For example, Facebook has a community of mainly college students while LinkedIn has a community of more middle-aged professionals. Just as in observing behavior of an actual physical place, you can observe community by going on and creating an account on any one of these social media sites. Because we belong to so many different things (for example, I am a Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter user, and I attend college, live in a house in Albany with friends while having a house with my parents on Long Island, etc.), I believe we are all a part of multiple communities.

In our next blog will be on a tool that no one has used yet. Since our community is this class and college, to attract people them to read our post, I need to be targeted at our class/general college students and it needs to relate to the common social media sites that we use everyday, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Resources on the Definition of Culture

Here are 5 resources I have found on the definition of culture:

Link 1: http://cindyking.biz/21-definitions-of-culture/
--This site lists 21 definitions of culture taken from twitter users.

Link 2: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
--This site contains a slideshare presentation of organizational culture and how it relates to the company Netflix.

Link 3: http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/United-States-of-America.html
-- This site lists the history of US Culture of political, economical, and social aspects of society.

Link 4: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/culture
-- This site from dictionary.com lists multiple definitions of culture.

Link 5: http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm
-- This site lists the different layers of culture all over the world.