{"id":1541,"date":"2020-05-24T19:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T02:45:49","slug":"mobile-culture-discord-and-mobile-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/24\/mobile-culture-discord-and-mobile-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Culture \u2013 Discord and Mobile Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original post by <a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/author\/adrian-wheeler\/\">adrian wheeler<\/a> on September 20, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/09\/discord-512-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55304\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most transformative aspects of mobile culture for me in the last few years has been Discrod and its unintentional evolution from a gamer-friendly VOIP (voice over IP) app to a hub for community. While Discord advertises itself as a \u201cfree voice and text chat for gamers\u201d its users have leveraged the combination of VOIP software and Slack-like collaboration tools to turn it into much more than the developers had intended. Discord, much like slack is separated into servers. These are spaces dedicated to a specific group of people and can be either private, or open to the public. These servers can be anything from a small group of friends to a massive global community. In many ways this mirrors the old Forums or BBS pages that enabled online communities to grow and flourish. Discord takes that model and updates it for a more connected, mobile first world. Rather than static forum posts that operate like a community message board, Discord servers separate topics into channels with real time text and audio chat functionality. This interface is similar to iMessage or facebook messenger and allows users to build closer relationships by engaging in real time conversation rather than waiting for forum posts. Unlike messaging apps however, Discrod servers support much larger groups and the channel structure enables those huge communities to engage in smaller conversations. Members are free to jump in and out of whichever channels they are interested in or direct message one another to have a private discussion.&nbsp;Bringing this functionality to a mobile application allows communities to maintain a constant connection and gives individuals a much stronger sense of membership. Interestingly Discrod themselves don\u2019t tend to advertise the community side of their application, however there is a dedicated webpage that helps users find communities called <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.me\/servers\">discord.me<\/a>. Through this site one can find communities for everything from Anime to Religion. Finally if you are interested in Discrod itself you can find it on your favorite app store or directly at their website <a href=\"https:\/\/discordapp.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post by adrian wheeler on September 20, 2019 One of the most transformative aspects of mobile culture for me in the last few years&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/24\/mobile-culture-discord-and-mobile-communities\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Culture \u2013 Discord and Mobile Communities<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32739,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}