To contribute to the forums, ‘produsers’ need to be members and sign in. However, non members can still read the forums.
The forum I have chosen to look at is to do with Madeleine McCann which will emphasise the media interest in the case I mentioned before. The link is http://messageboards.sky.com/ThreadView.aspx?ThreadId=3730
Surprisingly I found people posted longer comments and responses on the forum than on the blogs. I personally would have thought blogs would generate more thoughtful, lenghty repsonses and that forums would be more conversational with short thoughts, ideas and responses. Would anyone else have thought this to be the case?
I also found the forums to be more emotive than the blogs and there was even more a sense of community as a lot of the posts are from the same people and it was created in August 2007. So I get the sense a lot of these people were very interested in the Madeleine story and have got just as involved in the forums and built up online relationships from discussing the story for such a long period of time.
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Alyson,
That does seem unusual that people post longer comments on the forums than in blogs....do you think this goes across all the forums on Sky, or has anything to do with the particular emotive nature of the one relating to Madeleine? Have you checked any of the other forums out to compare them?
All the best
Emma
RINCY
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