Mapping virtual communities by their visual productions: The example of the Second Life Steampunk community

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Highlights：

• Virtual communities can be mapped through their visual productions.

• Visual artifacts are consistent with linguistic clues in a given community.

• Different multimodal parameters point to the same arrangement of communities.

• Virtual communities can be mapped alongside a continuum.

摘要

•Virtual communities can be mapped through their visual productions.•Visual artifacts are consistent with linguistic clues in a given community.•Different multimodal parameters point to the same arrangement of communities.•Virtual communities can be mapped alongside a continuum.

论文关键词：Community identification,Self-identification,Steampunk,Virtual artifact,Virtual communities

论文评审过程：Available online 7 November 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.017