Online Virtual Community Experience of Chinese Middle-aged and Elderly People

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This study uses virtual ethnographic research, attempting to understand the experience of Chinese middle-aged and elderly people online, focusing particularly on how they share their interests with others, how they interact with others, and how they construct social relationships in an audiovisual-based online virtual community -- the 51VV video community.

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online virtual community, sense of community, sense of virtual community, virtual ethnography, 51VV video community

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