Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge

Selver Dikkol; Hakan Erkılıç

doi:10.24955/ilef.654015

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Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge

Abstract

Online social networks enable the creation of groups within a wide variety of topics. Social network sites, like Facebook, offer options for users to create groups or to join existing groups for any topic they are interested in. The aim of this study is to investigate the function of the communicative memory, accepted in the literature as a notion providing continuity of communication, in online groups. In-depth interviews are conducted with seven participants who are members of the same Facebook group in the study in order to investigate and discuss the parameters of communicative memory, its role in-group communication and its effect on group solidarity in the online groups. The data obtained from the interviews are analyzed in the context of communicative memory. In the light of data and evaluations, it is concluded that each of the posts shared in Facebook groups is cumulatively generating their own collective knowledge; it can be said that communicative memory supports this commonness and provides the transmission of fragmented information.

Keywords

Online community,Facebook,communicative memory,social memory,collaborative knowledge

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Selver Dikkol ^*
0000-0002-1918-6795
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Hakan Erkılıç
0000-0002-0828-3848
Türkiye

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December 4, 2019

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December 10, 2018

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June 14, 2019

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Dikkol, S., & Erkılıç, H. (2019). Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi, 6(2), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.24955/ilef.654015

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1.Dikkol S, Erkılıç H. Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi. 2019;6(2):251-274. doi:10.24955/ilef.654015

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Dikkol, Selver, and Hakan Erkılıç. 2019. “Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge”. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi 6 (2): 251-74. https://doi.org/10.24955/ilef.654015.

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Dikkol S, Erkılıç H (December 1, 2019) Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi 6 2 251–274.

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[1]S. Dikkol and H. Erkılıç, “Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge”, Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 251–274, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.24955/ilef.654015.

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Dikkol, Selver - Erkılıç, Hakan. “Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge”. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi 6/2 (December 1, 2019): 251-274. https://doi.org/10.24955/ilef.654015.

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1.Dikkol S, Erkılıç H. Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi. 2019;6:251–274.

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Dikkol, Selver, and Hakan Erkılıç. “Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge”. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, Dec. 2019, pp. 251-74, doi:10.24955/ilef.654015.

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1.Selver Dikkol, Hakan Erkılıç. Communicative Memory in Online Communities: Mediated and Collaborative Knowledge. Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi. 2019 Dec. 1;6(2):251-74. doi:10.24955/ilef.654015

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