Conclusion

ESPN Soccernet is a football site that is dedicated to providing people with up to date football news, there is also a virtual community masked by this information domain. The community has been formed around the common interest of football however there are members that have been on Soccernet for years and there are millions of viewers each year (Who.is, 2009). The community that has developed is huge there are thousands of posts a day and are always a lot of people online on Soccernet. The case study has not discussed every detail of every message board on Soccernet as there are hundreds. However I can say from studying them myself there are definitely different forms of community all around the site especially as people are separated into talking about clubs specifically and people depending on their adaptation to the technology and their personality will make interacting communities as seen in the blog example above. The social setting of Soccernet is friendly and people generally seem comfortable talking about things football related, with some occasions of non-football topics. Soccernet definitely has an online community within it, however it may not be as well developed as other communities on the internet.