The purpose of this study was to analyze women's sites in internet as a cyber community in terms of interest and relationship.
Community may be seen as a territory controlled by a range of common topic. Computer network are being used to connect pe...
The purpose of this study was to analyze women's sites in internet as a cyber community in terms of interest and relationship.
Community may be seen as a territory controlled by a range of common topic. Computer network are being used to connect people to people, resulting to do people create a certain kind of community. Women's sites as a cyber community provide a much needed topic noting women's style. And in women's sites, women have formed thousands of groups to discuss a range topic, entertain on another, and even work on a range of complex collective projects.
A content analysis was conducted on 16 woman's sites in Internet. The physical appearance- and family-related subjects are most frequently appeared in interest area. And results also show that connections' generations-, and entertainment-related subjects are most frequently appeared contents in the sites for building relationship among site members. However the interesting subjects and relationship building in woman's site in Internet are not interrelated each other.
Future research requires a survey of members in the cyber community to investigate preference and involvement of the contents.