{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,4]],"date-time":"2026-05-04T23:20:08Z","timestamp":1777936808541,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":43,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"6","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,21]],"date-time":"2015-12-21T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1450656000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["journals.sagepub.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["New Media &amp; Society"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2017,6]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint\u2019s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint \u2013 seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global currency trader, or Ponzi scheme \u2013 and to make sense of themselves as enterprising investors. This narrative inquiry unveils their rich, multi-voiced, fragmented storying of Olint and its founder, once praised as a \u2018financial messiah\u2019.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1461444815621511","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,21]],"date-time":"2015-12-21T21:30:49Z","timestamp":1450733449000},"page":"843-860","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Sensemaking in an online community after financial loss: Enterprising Jamaican investors and the fall of a financial messiah"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Clea D","family":"Bourne","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Goldsmiths, University of London, UK"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0170840609357380"},{"key":"bibr2-1461444815621511","first-page":"365","volume":"4","author":"Austin D","year":"2004","journal-title":"University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class"},{"key":"bibr3-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Bank of Jamaica (2015) Commercial banks weighted deposit rates. Available at: http:\/\/boj.org.jm\/statistics\/econdata\/stats_list.php?type=5"},{"key":"bibr4-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1108\/02652320910988320"},{"key":"bibr5-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4135\/9781849209496"},{"key":"bibr6-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1350508409102298"},{"key":"bibr7-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/0968759022000010452"},{"key":"bibr8-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2575.2008.00301.x"},{"key":"bibr9-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Taking Responsibility: The Jamaican Economy since Independence","author":"Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI)","year":"2007"},{"key":"bibr10-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Investigating Informal Investment Schemes in Jamaica","author":"Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI)","year":"2008"},{"key":"bibr11-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5089\/9781451872422.001"},{"key":"bibr12-1461444815621511","first-page":"87","volume":"14","author":"Cox H","year":"1997","journal-title":"World Policy Journal"},{"key":"bibr13-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Dawes M (2004) Rescuing Jamaica. Daily Gleaner, 23 October. Available at: http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20041023\/mind\/mind1.html"},{"key":"bibr14-1461444815621511","first-page":"1","author":"Ennis E","year":"2007","journal-title":"Jamaica Observer"},{"key":"bibr15-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Espeut P (2011) Lessons from Olint. Daily Gleaner, 19 August. Available at: http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20110819\/cleisure\/cleisure2.html"},{"key":"bibr16-1461444815621511","volume-title":"FSC Cease & Desist Order","author":"Financial Services Commission (FSC)","year":"2006"},{"key":"bibr17-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1068\/d7607"},{"key":"bibr18-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1541-1338.2002.tb00231.x"},{"key":"bibr19-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Hall A (2010) Oh God! Oh no! Olint! Sunday Gleaner, 22 August. Available at: http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20100822\/lead\/lead2.html"},{"key":"bibr20-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0021943606295778"},{"key":"bibr21-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0001972011000696"},{"key":"bibr22-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/713676038"},{"key":"bibr23-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Investforlife (2008a) About us \u2013 rules, Investforlife \u2013 Real Investments for Life. Available at: http:\/\/investforlife.wordpress.com\/about\/"},{"key":"bibr24-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Investforlife (2008b) Olint local offices closed. Investforlife \u2013 Real Investments for Life. Available at: http:\/\/investforlife.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/14\/olint-office-closed\/"},{"key":"bibr25-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0001972011000738"},{"key":"bibr26-1461444815621511","first-page":"141","author":"KYC News","year":"2008","journal-title":"Offshore Alert"},{"key":"bibr27-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1353\/cul.2007.0009"},{"key":"bibr28-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Financialization of Daily Life","author":"Martin D","year":"2002"},{"key":"bibr29-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0022278X0900398X"},{"key":"bibr30-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Meikle A (2006) Be careful of your greed, Lee Chin warns investors. Jamaica Observer, 29 September. Available at: http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20060929\/business\/business7.html"},{"key":"bibr31-1461444815621511","unstructured":"National Integrity Action (NIA) (2013) The cost of corruption: Jamaica\u2019s barrier to prosperity. NIA (producer), Video recording. Available at: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PEZnDCMvjO8"},{"key":"bibr32-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Private Club Member Agreement","author":"Olint TCI","year":"2008"},{"key":"bibr33-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7208\/chicago\/9780226679334.001.0001"},{"key":"bibr34-1461444815621511","unstructured":"Reid T (2009) \u2018I believed in David\u2019 \u2013 Olint investors losing hope. Sunday Gleaner, 8 February. Available at: http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20090208\/news\/news1.html"},{"key":"bibr35-1461444815621511","first-page":"898","volume-title":"Handbook of Computer Networks","volume":"3","author":"Sproull L","year":"2008"},{"key":"bibr36-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Class, State and Democracy in Jamaica","author":"Stone C","year":"1985"},{"key":"bibr37-1461444815621511","volume-title":"The Stone Columns: The Last Year\u2019s Work","author":"Stone C","year":"1994"},{"key":"bibr38-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0260107913503931"},{"key":"bibr39-1461444815621511","volume-title":"United States of America v. David A. Smith","author":"US District Court","year":"2011"},{"key":"bibr40-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/00028533.2003.11821595"},{"key":"bibr41-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/2393339"},{"key":"bibr42-1461444815621511","volume-title":"Sensemaking in Organizations","author":"Weick KE","year":"1995"},{"key":"bibr43-1461444815621511","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0018726711423442"}],"container-title":["New Media &amp; Society"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1461444815621511","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1177\/1461444815621511","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/1461444815621511","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,2]],"date-time":"2026-05-02T03:44:07Z","timestamp":1777693447000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1461444815621511"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,21]]},"references-count":43,"journal-issue":{"issue":"6","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2017,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1177\/1461444815621511"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1461444815621511","relation":{},"ISSN":["1461-4448","1461-7315"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1461-4448","type":"print"},{"value":"1461-7315","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,21]]}}}