2) Social Support: Concepts

• Online communities

  • E-commerce customer service & consumer conversations
  • Medical support groups & information exchange
  • Educational discussions & teamwork
  • Neighborhood forums & political organizing

• Technologies

  • Synchronous text: Instant messaging, chat rooms
  • Asynchronous text: Listservs, bulletin boards, newsgroups
  • Audio,video, virtual realities

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