It takes more than communitas for community

[GreenEyedTrombonist]

So I'm currently writing a small section of my grad project about what a community is and I'm just sitting here, contemplating communitas and how parameters of physical communities are altered in a digital environment. 

All in all, this is my way of procrastinating and also asking if there are any other digital ethnographers around.  

[TheMagicMoment]

I'm a digital ethnographer! My master's thesis was based on digital ethnographic methods, as well as my current project, and very likely my PhD dissertation, too!

[GreenEyedTrombonist]

Yay! Another digital ethnographer!  

How are you enjoying Irvine?

[TheMagicMoment]

I love UCI, because my department has given me a ton of support in a variety of ways, and I've made some great connections in other departments at UCI and in SoCal. I grew up in a rural environment and I'm sometimes amazed how easily I've adapted to a suburban place like Irvine. Mostly I don't mind it, because there is a lot of interesting stuff in easy distance (by car at any rate).