Imagined Online Communities: Communionship, Sovereignty, and Inclusiveness in Facebook Groups

Through Facebook "Group" feature, users often sensitize communionships, join different groups, and establish imagined communities with known people strangers. In our interview study 32 admins of we explored the influential factors such challenges group face while managing these communities, how they resolve those. Our findings show that set rules for entry maintenance monitor members' activities, limit their actions or mute them during conflicts. Thus, members groups together grow a sensibility sovereignty within community on Facebook. While in is empowering, this empowerment may not be perceived experienced evenly by everyone online communities. To explain this, build concept "Imagined Communities' Benedict Anderson [16 ] argue there tension between admins' other users' practice. work joins body CSCW literature aims at designing more sustainable collaborative tools specific similar platforms.