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Municipal Virtual Communities (MuViC): Expanding Cities to the Virtual World

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Andre de Oliveira Bueno,

Junia Coutinho AnacletoAuthors Info & Claims

IHC '17: Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Article No.: 37, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3160504.3160526

Published: 23 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Adoption of Online Social Networks keeps growing, leading to intertwine virtual life into social context. However, creating effective virtual communities with deep and meaningful interaction among members remains challenging. The factors that make a certain virtual community to bond are still not well known. We present a five-year experiment involving a Facebook Group for a city, adopted by 83% of its citizens as an extension of the city in the virtual world. A set of rules to manage the group formulated during the experiment is presented, created by observing its members' behaviour, which led to an effective management for a Municipal Virtual Group. The main rules are: (i) Unidentified profiles cannot have opinion in the group; (ii) Posts cannot be removed; (iii) It is not allowed to talk about politics beyond the city's context. Three cases that occurred in the group under such rules and their consequent impact are reported.

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Carvalho LSuzano JPereira RSantoro FOliveira JMonteiro Ida Hora Rodrigues Kde Gois Ribeiro Darin TFreire AMota M(2021)EthicsProceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3472301.3484324(1-12)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472301.3484324

Index Terms

Municipal Virtual Communities (MuViC): Expanding Cities to the Virtual World
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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IHC '17: Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3160504

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Carvalho LSuzano JPereira RSantoro FOliveira JMonteiro Ida Hora Rodrigues Kde Gois Ribeiro Darin TFreire AMota M(2021)EthicsProceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3472301.3484324(1-12)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3472301.3484324

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