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Makale Özeti:
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So far, the existence of a virtual community forum has become a reality and social
necessity in an era cybertech. It was also viewed as the electronic frontier of 21st
century society that was undoubtedly for reorganizing and redefining to awareness of
human being, that ways of their perceptions and explorations no longer limited by time,
space, and geographic. Since the early decades of the 1990s, the existence of virtual
community forum has attracted much attention and interest to the researchers, because
it has significance as a social and cultural capital, and as a socio-technological solution
for creating a learning community building forces. The UT-Online community forum is a
virtual community forum that was built by (Universitas Terbuka) UT in year 2006 to
facilitate students to share and discuss various information, ideas, experiences in
relation with academic or/and non-academic. This study examines and explains the
contents of relation, social ties and structures of social relation networks in UT-Online
Community Forum. The results of the study are important to the distance education
institutions for building sense of community to DE students.
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