This is the transcript from the chat which occurred around our tutorial Hangout on Friday.

Myles Thies Control groups?

10:15 AM

Colin Miller isn’t also possible for our announcements to be lost in the crowd of the Mooc?

10:16 AM

Renée Hann does being at the ‘norm setting’ stage (it the MOOC is just starting) help/hinder?

10:18 AM

Colin Miller Perhaps the “common enemy” will be a talking point to stimulate discussion.

10:18 AM

Myles Thies Could it be a culturally contextualized misunderstanding perhaps? ie non western?

10:21 AM

Nigel Painting that’s just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

10:23 AM

Colin Miller Nice mask, Dirk 😀

10:23 AM

Cathy Hills is this flaming particular to online communities or would there be someone in the pub who takes exception to something

10:23 AM

Renée Hann pero, Nigel, to puedes hablar muy bien

10:26 AM

Eli App_D I think Dirk is symbolising the “hiding behind a mask” idea of the internet 🙂

10:26 AM

Nigel Painting Yes but in English Renée 🙂

10:28 AM

You Yes. Please can you send the links.

10:32 AM

Renée Hann is the co-opting of the MOOC format by big corporates perhaps influential on diminished sense of community? i.e. ownership

10:33 AM

Cathy Hills sure http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/a37268

10:33 AM

Renée Hann and what abbout your participant role? i.e. whether you are mingler/devotee etc. How does that impact on your study?

10:39 AM

Renée Hann *about

10:39 AM

Eli App_D that’s something I was conscious of Renee. I am trying to fully participate as part of the community in the hope that it might give me a fuller experience

10:40 AM

Myles Thies Bayms research – social interactors seek to integrate their online and offline experiences

10:41 AM

Renée Hann perhaps – in being constructed for a particular audience – the sense of identity is too fragmented when only delivered through text?

Myles Thies Isnt that true of face to face communities too -same question

10:50 AM

Matthew Sleeman Reminded of Zygmunt Bauman about ‘cloakroom communities’: e.g. http://deuze.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/interview-with-zygmunt-bauman-part-iii.html

10:50 AM

Myles Thies Should it be so rigid?

Renée Hann kozinets – ‘anticipated future interaction’

Cathy Hills yes, anticipated interaction, thanks Renee

10:52 AM

Myles Thies Globalisation is not in fashion anymore?

10:56 AM

Colin Miller But people will always reach out to others who are of a similar mind

10:58 AM

Myles Thies hahaha!

10:58 AM

Myles Thies How about Trump masks? Stirring the pot eh?

10:59 AM

Renée Hann we’re part of an experiment.. flame him 😉

10:59 AM

Myles Thies How will VR play on this?

Myles Thies Doppelgangers r us?