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A community of interest, or interest-based community, is a community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts about the given passion, but may know (or care) little about each other outside this area. Participation in a community of interest can be compelling, entertaining and create a community where people return frequently and remain for extended periods. Frequently, they cannot be easily defined by a particular geographical area.

In other words, "a community of interest is a gathering of people assembled around a topic of common interest. Its members take part in the community to exchange information, to obtain answers to personal questions or problems, to improve their understanding of a subject, to share common passions or to play."

"Online communities" connect to communities of interest in that often, they develop out of interests in a particular topic.^[3] A benefit of online communities over place-based communities is that of non-physical access to group involvement.^[3]

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Further reading

• External and shareable artifacts as opportunities for social creativity in communities of interest Archived 2017-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Communities of Interest: Learning through the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems Archived 2016-05-18 at the Portuguese Web Archive

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