Although ‘slow burning’ disputes can take a long time to erupt (this case study had a three month genesis before it reached crisis point), and although it should not be assumed that resolution is achieved instantly, the community appears to be regaining its equilibrium. In this example, the majority of members (only a few were involved in the dispute) saw the escalation as a potential threat to the continuation of the community and intervened to assist resolution. In the context of a community that is also a research project, however, the matters of institutional risk, ethics clearance and legal liability complicate the issues and decisions have to be taken that are carefully noted and justified.

communication has either positive or negative implications – and misunderstandings, miscommunication and disputes can quickly escalate. It raises issues of ethics and accountability, and of the genuinely intense communication that develops between some people in online community. This paper represents a detailed case study of an inter-member dispute occurring in a moderated website operated as part of a research programme between the National Heart Foundation (WA Division) and Edith Cowan University. The research takes a qualitative approach with content analysis. The research comes up with the hypothetical fact that secret societies mask their identity to attain societal acceptance. The analysis attempts to answer queries like what is a secret society? Why were they formed? Why were they required to operate in secrecy? What is the Opus Dei? What are the Illuminati? And if secret societies do exist. Secret societies are analyzed and compared, and differences docketed as to how they exhibit themselves in their official websites vis-à-vis how they are presented in the novel. In this research, secret societies like ―The Illuminati from Brown’s Angels and Demons (2000) and ―Opus Dei from The Da Vinci Code (2003) are examined and equated to facts, references and sources.

Dan Brown’s novel Angels and Demons (2000) could be an excellent example of a conspiracy novel that is rich with the foremost outstanding secret societies within the world The Illuminati. Terms like Illuminati, Assassins, Freemasons and their symbols like the All Seeing - Eye, the Pyramids, Fleur-de-lis and the like, are used in popular culture like songs, novels, cartoons, and even in trademarks. With the dawn of the 21st century, a new interest in secret societies spread through all venues of life and shaped this centuries' culture, in literature, arts, movies, industry it even reached politics and religion. Secret societies have continually been attention-grabbing topics for novelists of adventure stories and conspiracy theories and Dan Brown is one among them.

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