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Being online, living offline: the influence of social ties over the appropriation of social network sites

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Bernd Ploderer,

Peter ThomasAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 333 - 342

https://doi.org/10.1145/1460563.1460618

Published: 08 November 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Research on social network sites has examined how people integrate offline and online life, but with a particular emphasis on their use by friendship groups. We extend earlier work by examining a case in which offline ties are non-existent, but online ties strong. Our case is a study of bodybuilders, who explore their passion with like-minded offline 'strangers' in tightly integrated online communities. We show that the integration of offline and online life supports passion-centric activities, such as bodybuilding.

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