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The work is devoted to the analysis of issues of personality formation in the conditions of belonging to a group community, the influence of the online environment on the personality and network groups in the modern online environment. An empirical study was conducted, in which a total of 193 individuals took part, who were involved through various online platforms: social networks, messengers, forums, gaming resources, educational platforms, etc. On the basis of the study, the attitude of network group participants to the online communities in which they are located was studied; their psychological characteristics were analyzed; determined the peculiarities of the psychological characteristics of the participants of network groups, depending on the attitude to the online communities in which they are located; typical profiles of the subjects' attitudes towards network groups were revealed.

The article describes graphic interference in Russian speech of the Chechens-bilinguals on the material of such a nomination, as the nickname in Internet forums. The author describes the named nicknames on different grounds: gender, belonging to the vocabulary of Russian, Chechen and other languages, in relation to the word, phrase, or a sentence, according to the specifics of graphic design. The author identifies active contacting and mixing of Russian and Chechen, and Russian, English and Chechen cultures in lexico-graphic design of nicknames of Chechens-bilinguals.

In today’s society, digital media play an increasing role in gathering and exchanging information. A growing part of communication takes place in the Internet and many people are increasingly influenced by information provided via digital and social media. Development of critical media literacy is needed, if the general public is expected to effectively deal with this flood of information and to become able to distinguish between correct and false information sources. Thus, critical media education becomes an important aim of education in general, and of chemistry education in particular when considering questions directly related to chemistry and its associated consumer products or technologies. The article describes a curriculum development case study investigating the integration of media education with chemistry learning along the case of learning with and about Internet forums on the topic of water chemistry. A unit integrating theoretical and practical chemistry learning based on student communication is described, which is built around a digital forum operated by Moodle. The unit design and findings from the implementation are presented.

Due to the high stigma surrounding the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), people living with HIV (PLWH) often reach out peers over the Internet for emotional and social support. The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of PLWH who use HIV internet forums. A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey investigating demographic characteristics of PLWH, level of satisfaction of the HIV Internet forums, time living with HIV, forum users' anxiety levels, self-reported adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART), and reasons for missing pills (n = 222). Logistic regression models were constructed to compare the use of general HIV forums with social networking sites, general HIV forums with group emails, and social networking sites with group emails. Two hundred and twenty-two patients responded to the survey. Social networking sites were used by recently diagnosed PLWH who were on antiretroviral treatment (ART) >1 year. Young patients (≤40 years) and those diagnosed 40 years), those diagnosed >5 years, and from low- and middle-income countries, were more likely to use emailing lists. There was no significant difference between PLWH's adherence to treatment and anxiety levels and the usage of different Internet forums. PLWH's Internet resource choice varied depending on the availability of Internet and illness duration. Different segments of the population could be reached via social networking sites versus group emails to provide HIV information.

Introduction: The new psychoactive substance (NPS) scene attracts people with various needs and motives. NPS, so-called designer drugs, for many seem to be the answer to what contemporary reality brings. The aim of the article is to present a typology of users and to present their views on the NPS. Methods: The study used a mixed method using qualitative and quantitative approach. A survey with 1385 users of NPS was conducted online and the analysis of the two largest Polish internet forums: “hyperreal.info” and “dopalamy.com” was done. Within the qualitative analysis carried out according to the principles of grounded theory over 1000 posts were analysed relating to ten most popular NPS from three different groups: stimulants (mostly synthetic cathinones), psychedelics and synthetic cannabinoids. Results: The study showed that the motives, context of use, style of language as well as expected effects of NPS are differentiating factors among users. Basing on these factors, in the process of qualitative analysis of Internet forums six different types of users were distinguished: 1) experts and scientists, 2) experimenters, 3) kamikaze, 4) newcomers, 5) supermen and 6) empathic party goers. Within each of the groups of NPS (stimulants, psychedelics, synthetic cannabinoids) the users of different types are dominant.

We ran an experiment with users of Internet forums. In a dictator game, we find that the level of altruism is positively related to the activity in the forum. In a public good game, there is no relation between cooperation in the game and contribution to the content of the forum. Subjects are not more altruistic with partners from the same forum but do cooperate more with them. These results suggest that the public good provided in Internet forums is mainly provided by a group of unconditional altruistic users, and that the sense of belonging supports the cooperation in that provision.

Students today are increasingly engaged in the use of digital information and communication technologies. The Internet continues to grow and more and more young people are using it worldwide. Educational practices, however, have been slow to adapt to the corresponding developments. For example, Internet forums are generally ignored in most educational practices, including chemistry education, although they are often used to find new information by everyday people. The question therefore arises: Why are such media not used to provoke and promote science or chemistry teaching and learning, while simultaneously developing critical scientific media literacy? To understand how the younger generation learns via Internet forums, this article looks at a survey of Internet forum usage behavior by lower and upper secondary school students (age range 12−17) in relation to chemistry-specific content. The findings are then contrasted with an analysis of user behavior. The final analysis revealed that students are open and critical when using Internet forums, even though such learning is mostly unconnected to formal education. These results can inform science and chemistry teaching by focusing teaching and learning more on Internet forums in order to employ them as an educational medium in science class.

Objetivo: El estudio (parte de una investigación más amplia) tiene como objetivo conocer los aspectos constructivos del lenguaje escrito para presentar la violencia de género y su articulación a marcos referenciales, con especial atención a la detección de espacios donde la emergencia del marco específico de género se hace posible. Métodos: A partir de las participaciones en un foro virtual de discusión se realizó un análisis del discurso recurriendo a la herramienta analítica de detección de repertorios interpretativos, con el apoyo del programa Atlas.ti v.6. Resultados: Tras el análisis de las participaciones en el foro identificamos tres repertorios interpretativos fundamentales. En los dos primeros, «La violencia, un síntoma social» y «Todos víctimas», se difumina en gran medida el marco referencial de género, que sin embargo encuentra su principal vía de expresión y confrontación en el tercero, «El péndulo del género». Éste se construye fundamentalmente a partir la crítica de muchos participantes a los efectos de lo que se llama la «discriminación positiva». Conclusiones: Detectamos la dificultad del marco de género, en el contexto de la promulgación y el desarrollo de la Ley Orgánica, para distinguirse del marco de referencia punitivo, que limita la violencia contra las mujeres a un problema interpersonal entre la víctima y el agresor, y ofrece esencialmente la solución de la denuncia y su resultado penal.Objective: This study (which forms part of a broader inquiry) aimed to determine the constructive aspects of the written language to introduce gender-based violence and its articulation in referential frameworks. Special attention was paid to detecting spaces where a gender framework could emerge. Methods: A discourse analysis of contributions to a specific virtual forum was performed using the analytical tool of detecting interpretative repertoires, with the support of the Atlas.ti v.6 program. Results: We identified three main interpretative repertoires. In the first two, "Violence, a social symptom" and "All victims", the gender framework was largely blurred. However, the third repertoire, "The pendulum of gender", was the main route of expression and of confrontation for this framework and was constructed mainly from the criticisms made by many participants of the effects of what is called "positive discrimination". Conclusions: We identified the difficulty of distinguishing the gender framework, in the context of the adoption and development of the law, from the punitive framework. This lack of distinction limits violence against women to an interpersonal problem between the victim and the aggressor, and essentially offers official complaints and their legal outcomes as the solution.

Women’s online magazines have been constantly proliferating and increasingly supplanting print publications. Contributing to their success, these sites offer similar content free of change and significantly greater opportunities for interaction – often in the form of discussion forums. However, these interactive spaces are currently disappearing, being replaced by an ever-escalating emphasis upon social network sites (SNSs). This article critically examines this changing model of reader interaction in women’s online magazines, drawing on a study of 68 interviews with industry insiders, forum user-generated content, and a variety of trade material. The analysis demonstrates how the decision to close the forums and embrace SNSs responds to multiple determinants, including a corporate doctrine of control over users’ discourse and outsourcing new modalities of free consumer labour, constituting a new ideal worker-commodity online: “the shareaholic”. This exercise of power has varying levels of success, and potentialities remain for users to exercise some transformative subversion, for example through what the article theorises as “labour of disruption”. Nonetheless, the emergent SNS-based magazine model of reader interaction poses a serious challenge to ongoing celebrations both in the industry and in some scholarly work about an increasingly democratic and user-led digital media ecosystem.

This paper is about the use of Electronic Mailing List and Internet Forums as tools for managers within educational organizations. In the same time, some of concepts, ideas and models can be used in other business organizations, especially in service providing organizations. Understanding management requires both learning and practicing, directly experiencing. People involved in electronic networks are experiencing the alternative to real communication. We considered Electronic Mailing List and Internet Forums both as marketing tool and a human resources management tool. The benefits of using discussion lists are: people informed, involved and improved.