Brief Anaylsis of a Web-Forum

Week Three



http://www.mixmag.net/forum



The kind of people seem laidback and everyone is interested in some kind of dance music or clubbing. The people talk colliqually and friendly to eachother and often trying to help others with enquires about songs/mixes/clubnights and so on. People present themselves as knowing alot about music and peopleoften talk about the large amounts of cluubs in a variety of locations that they have attended. The peole tend to talk well, and in full sentences an "text speak" is not very common. It is hard to tell who is male and female as most people are hidden behind screenames. Everyone on this forum uses the same font (without signing up to the websites-one does not know if its even an option to change fonts) and hardly any have avators. I believe this lack of originlity is due to the topic of the forum, as the stereotype of "clubbers" is slightly cool, or too laidback to care about things such as avators. They are simply there to find out the information they want. There doesnt seem to be many "friendships" formed on the forum, the people just seem to be asking their question/posting their link (etc) and/or replying, there doesnt seem to be any kind of "banter".

The forum is laid out into sections such as "clubnights", "remixes" and on, this is to encourage people to discuss a variety of issues and makes it very easy to navigate around easily. This is fairly typical of a forum.

I think this forum works well for the topic it as well as sticking closely to the conventions of other forums.