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* [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html Rheingold, ''The Virtual Community''] | * [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html Rheingold, ''The Virtual Community''] | ||
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/ff_well_pr.html Wired, "The Epic Saga of The Well"] | * [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/ff_well_pr.html Wired, "The Epic Saga of The Well"] | ||
Pre-web. Mainly forums and bulletin boards (BBSs) and a community of self-selected internet users. One can argue that the sense of community pre-existed the WELL. | |||
== YouTube == | == YouTube == | ||
Revision as of 02:14, 29 October 2007
Do Virtual Communities Exist?
Business
Recap
Databasification
- Impact of symbolic forms on how people are represented
- The old cliché of being a number
- But also a self as pattern
Institutions
- Corporations
- Governments
Ideologies
- Communicative transparency
- Privacy
- Bodies vs. People
Aside: on Ethical Premises
Segue
- Today we consider the phenomenon of blogging -- a catch-all phrase -- and community
- What ideologies?
- A counter-institution?
Intro
The WELL
Pre-web. Mainly forums and bulletin boards (BBSs) and a community of self-selected internet users. One can argue that the sense of community pre-existed the WELL.
YouTube
MySpace
- EMO
- What is the connection between Emo and MySpace?
Daily Kos
- The Blog]
- Video of conference
- Lieberman
Are these communities?
Imagined Communities
- See Anderson1997
Community and Imagination
- Anderson's argument
- Applies to all forms of social organization
- Role of ritual is to create this consciousness
Imagination and Symbolic Form
- Newspapers
- The Novel
- Language
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Also: folklore, etc.
