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A 10 page paper examining an Internet membership group in terms of composition, function, operation and differences from traditional mass media. This form of communication is one in which many can take part, but it still retains the form of exchange between individuals. This provides a significant difference between the group and traditional mass media. The other primary difference is that it is the group members, rather than the list owner, who determine what the content and topics of discussion will be. An appendix fills half of the paper; the appendix tracks group activity for 10 consecutive days, giving a synopsis of discussion topics in this group that has only 123 members but averaged nearly 17 posts daily over 10 days. The group’s focus is the care and breeding of macaw parrots. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSallMacaw.rtf
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engendered an environment in which people sharing common interests can gather with like-minded others. AllMacaw is a mail-list group based at Yahoo!(r) Groups that also archives posts online, enabling
group members to read individual posts in email or from the Web. The group has been in existence since 1999 and currently includes 123 members. The list owner
and a co-administrator try to limit membership to that level in an effort to minimize the amount of time they have to invest in directly overseeing the site and dealing
with the technical vagaries of bounced email messages. Selection and Observation The AllMacaw group is a membership-only email list currently maintained at Yahoo!(r)
Groups. Yahoo!s site reports that the group has been in existence since December 2001, and that was the time that the group returned to Yahoo! after relying on another
management site, SmartGroups.com, for some time. As stated, the group has been in existence since 1999, originated by a retired veterinarian who is passionate about macaws and lories but
who was frustrated with the immense volume of misinformed - and many times dangerous - opinion being promoted through other groups such as Usenets rec.pet.birds.
The student writing on this topic should note that I personally have been a member of AllMacaw since its inception and have full knowledge of the group that
is not readily apparent to those new to the group. (A site that may be good for the students own analysis is a Usenet (now owned by Google) group
known as alt.cheese, accessible at http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&num=25&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.cheese&start=50. The observation phase of the project consisted of reading the email delivered to an email address I
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