
Media are explored as a model to envision, to design, to formalize and to implement platforms for communities. We consider communities of both natural and artificial agents and aim at designing media which facilitate collaboration within such a community. Our approach is based on the media concept and the media model. The media concept envisions media as platforms for multi-agent systems and the media reference model determines the main components of a medium and guides its application as, e.g. for e-commerce or knowledge management. We present a formalization of those models that facilitates artificial agents to act according to the description given in this formalization. We explore the notion of community and various interrelation communities and their media. We discuss the representation of a community on a platform and how technology enables and influences the constitution of communities. We reconstruct communities on media and explore formalization, redesign and reconsideration of aspects of communities.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 15 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% |
