Research on social network sites has examined how people integrate offline and online life, but with a particular emphasis on their use by friendship groups. We extend earlier work by examining a case in which offline ties are non-existent, but online ties strong. Our case is a study of bodybuilders, who explore their passion with like-minded offline 'strangers' in tightly integrated online communities. We show that the integration of offline and online life supports passion-centric activities, such as bodybuilding. Copyright 2008 ACM.
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Ploderer, B., Howard, S., & Thomas, P. (2008). Being online, living offline: The influence of social ties over the appropriation of social network sites. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW (pp. 333–342). https://doi.org/10.1145/1460563.1460618
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