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QuickTime and adecompressorare needed to see this picture.Figure 1: MTV India‘s brand commuity (as seen on 12th march 2012)2.0 Brand CommunitiesA brand is a ―collection <strong>of</strong> perceptions in <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> a consumer‖ (Fournier, 1998 p.4; see also Kleine & Baker,2004). The notion <strong>of</strong> brand community was first defined by Muniz and O‘Guinn (2001). They defined it as a―specialized, non-geographically bound community, based on a structured set <strong>of</strong> social relationships amongadmirers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> brand‖ (Muniz & O‘Guinn, 2001, p.412). There has been considerable activity and researchfocussed on brand communities (Matzler et al.2011; Belk & Tumbat, 2005; McWilliam, 2000), which has suggestedthat a company‘s web based brand community, must be a part <strong>of</strong> its total brand

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