An opening to the greatest number
The community is not open by nature. The sociologist Émile Durkheim sees in these groups the emergence of collective emotions that result from the recurrence of interactions around a unifying subject. The members thus build a community linked by common knowledge and emotions.
These same members can also "create links as well as social exclusion" , to quote Serge Proulx again . Also, the group can be difficult to integrate for a new user who will need time before finding his place there.
In communities that emerged from the crisis, the power of the common cause makes communities more accessible and allows for the involvement of a wider audience. In addition, confinement measures can free twitter data up free time, create a new solitude, develop a will to act… encouraging people to meet online.
We are even seeing the emergence of virtual communities which are generally not very active in the physical world outside of periods of crisis, for example Voisinsolidaires or Allovoisin , local aid platforms.
As the world evolves around the virus, a wide variety of actors are developing online communities to adapt to the crisis. All sectors are acclimatizing to the new way of exchanging and communicating on the Internet.
Sports, religion, politics, health, entertainment: online communities are flourishing in all the environments we frequent. Whether through the creation of new platforms or the hybridization of old ones, the world continues to turn and the diversity offered by the virtual seems to show that our habits can adapt to this unprecedented situation. These examples show the extreme diversity of communities that quickly attract thousands of users.
Accompanied by the hashtags #Stayhome, ultra-trailers (practitioners of running in nature) are organizing the “confined sport challenge” . A weekly online meeting where participants from all over the world achieve sporting feats of all kinds, from home.