
carried out by the virtual community. One of the
virtual communities that is a learning space for its
members is the Adobe Premiere Indonesia (API)
community. The API Community is a virtual
community that accommodates people interested in
learning video editing using Adobe Premier software.
This community was initially formed on the social
media Facebook and then developed using other social
media platforms such as Instagram, WhatsApp
Groups, and Telegram Groups. The members of the
API virtual community consist of various levels, from
beginner video editors to professional video editors,
multiple ages, educational backgrounds, social
statuses and genders, even among the members who
do not know each other directly. Despite this, the API
virtual community has an effective learning process
that allows knowledge sharing between its members.
Based on the knowledge-sharing process in the
API virtual community, this paper assumes that online
interaction can be an adequate knowledge-sharing
space when learners interact under certain situations
and conditions. Therefore, this paper will describe
how interaction and knowledge sharing occur in the
API virtual community. This paper aims to explore
what kind of interaction that makes online learning
can be optimal.
2 VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
The virtual community is a place to gather and share
a sense of togetherness, even if they don't know each
other. The virtual community occurs on social media,
such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram,
Line, and other social media. Rulli Nasrullah (2016;
13) concluded that social media is a medium on the
internet that allows users to present themselves and
interact, collaborate, share, communicate with other
users, and form virtual social bonds.
In this case, the virtual community referred to by
the researcher is a virtual space where individuals
with the same interests gather, discuss, exchange
ideas, and complement each other with information
about their own culture, thus establishing a social
bond between its members.
Virtual communities have fundamental
differences from physical communities because their
members are not geographically close. Virtual
communities are generally formed and developed
through various forms of interaction carried out
through CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication)
on various social media platforms (Nurhaliza &
Fauziah, 2020). According to Cantoni and Tardini
(2006), CMC is an interaction between individuals
via computers. Virtual communities develop as a
medium for group communication formed from
various motives such as interests, work, skills,
hobbies, study groups, and sources of information.
This uniformity of interest drives individuals to form
groups "virtually" to develop information,
knowledge, and joint mobility.
On the other hand, virtual communities also have
enormous potential, especially in building social
networks. Its nature of being able to cross regional
boundaries and move in its own time and space makes
virtual communities a breakthrough in interaction.
Therefore, virtual communities form a culture that
applies to each different community.
3 KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Knowledge sharing is a process of sharing,
disseminating, and exchanging information and
knowledge between person to other person, persons
to communities, and between communities to
implement something better and create new
knowledge. Knowledge sharing is done through
social interaction and communication processes
between those who provide knowledge and those
who receive knowledge. Meylasari & Qamari (2017)
define knowledge sharing as a systematic process for
distributing knowledge through communication or
virtual media to develop, improve, and create new
knowledge to obtain added value for a particular
organization/community. In general, knowledge
sharing is an activity of sharing knowledge, ideas,
experiences, or skills between individuals or groups,
which is one of the essential dimensions of
knowledge management.
4 SOCIAL INTERACTION IN
VIRTUAL SPACE
Social interaction is a relationship between
individuals or groups where the behavior of
individuals or groups can influence, change, or
improve the behavior of other individuals or groups
and vice versa. (Ahmadi, 2008). Social interaction
today is heavily influenced by the pace of innovation
in technology and information, which has given rise
to virtual interaction spaces or cyberspace. In its
development, this new space has been able to divert
activities in real life, such as political, social,
economic, and even sexual activities, to this virtual
world, which is known as a world without borders, so
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