Topic: online communities

The displacement of human communication from conventional physical space to online, virtual, or hybrid spaces represents a major paradigm shift in the way humans interact. Yet, one of the main concerns regarding these technology-powered spaces is that they are perceived as being dysregulated, thus making ground for disinformation to take place or for inappropriate behavior to occur. Analyzing a plagiarism conflict having taken place between content creators on a social media platform, we explored the way the community itself perceived the ethical aspects of the situation, and how the reactions

The digital era is witnessing a shift of the expression of human behavior from physical to online spaces. From the possibility to hold both synchronous and asynchronous interactions, to the capacity to store these interactions over time, temporality is a key aspect of online communities' emergence and structuring. Therefore, understanding the temporal patterns of online interactions is critical to apprehend how social interactions take place in digitalized spaces. We approached this question by exploring the temporal patterns of reactions to fictional characters' deaths in an online community