Via the TLTR mailing list came notice of this excerpt regarding the “Psychological Sense of Community” – an attempt to identify the psychological factors that determine whether an individual will feel they are a part of a community. The four major factors he identifies are Membership, Influence, Integration, and the Fulfillment of Needs. This struck me as relevant to recent musings by Charlie Lowe over at Kairosnews on why communities don’t form out of online classes even though the conditions seem otherwise ripe. – SWL