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The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles, Jan Fernback, (1996) Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety ed. Steve Jones, Thousand Oacks: Sage Publications Ltd.

Moderators:

Keywords: collective, computer-mediated communication, public sphere, counterpublics, virtual community, Gemainschaft, Gesellschaft, social contract, communications decancy act, virtual agora

Summary of key points raised in the text:

Like in the physical world, there are tensions between the individual and the collective in cyberspace.

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) users assume that they can overcome the tyranny of geography through cyberspace.

Cyberspace has become a new arena for participation in public life - what agora was to the Greeks - an arena for political debate and education.

Habermas: the public sphere - cyberspace might serve as a public sphere similar to the coffee houses in 18th century France and Britain, where public debate was taking place.

Fraser's critiicism towards Habermas: Borgeois men dominated these public spheres where they practiced their own skills of governance.

Counterpublics (Fraser): gays, feminists, anarchists, and other factions tend to form in response to the dominant public spheres.

Rheingold: Virtual communities perform the functions of Gemeinschaft community - Our need for human association is so strong that we will seek to build communities of interest in cyberspace because we might have no better option.

Simmel: Individual identity is based partly on social existence. Therefore an individual needs a sense of contributing to the greater community.

Dewey: True self knowledge is only achieved through the experience of community life.

Democracy requires individual participation in the creation of collective life.

Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:

Is the term Urbanism any valid today?

American culture are the dominant paradigm of virtual community studies

How open and unmoderated is the political debate within counterpublics?

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-''The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles'', Jan Fernback, (1996) '''Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety''' ed. Steve Jones, Thousand Oacks: Sage Publications Ltd
+''The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles'', Jan Fernback, (1996) '''Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety''' ed. Steve Jones, Thousand Oacks: Sage Publications Ltd.
+'''Moderators:'''
+* [[User:Yiorgos Bagakis|Yiorgos Bagakis]]
+* [[User:Inge Hoonte|Inge Hoonte]]
+* [[User:Laura Macchini|Laura Macchini ]]
+'''Keywords:'''
+collective, computer-mediated communication, public sphere, counterpublics, virtual community, Gemainschaft, Gesellschaft, social contract, communications decancy act, virtual agora
+'''Summary of key points raised in the text:'''
+* Like in the physical world, there are tensions between the '''individual''' and the '''collective''' in '''cyberspace'''.
+* '''Computer-mediated communication''' (CMC) users assume that they can overcome the tyranny of geography through cyberspace.
+* Cyberspace has become a new arena for participation in public life - what agora was to the Greeks - an arena for political debate and education.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas Habermas]: the '''public sphere''' - cyberspace might serve as a public sphere similar to the coffee houses in 18th century France and Britain, where public debate was taking place.
+* Fraser's critiicism towards Habermas: Borgeois men dominated these public spheres where they practiced their own skills of governance.
+* '''Counterpublics''' (Fraser): gays, feminists, anarchists, and other factions tend to form in response to the dominant public spheres.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rheingold Rheingold]: Virtual communities perform the functions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft Gemeinschaft] community - Our need for human association is so strong that we will seek to build communities of interest in cyberspace because we might have no better option.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel Simmel]: Individual identity is based partly on social existence. Therefore an individual needs a sense of contributing to the greater community.
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey Dewey]: True self knowledge is only achieved through the experience of community life.
+Democracy requires individual participation in the creation of collective life.
+'''Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:'''
+* Is the term Urbanism any valid today?
+* American culture are the dominant paradigm of virtual community studies
+* How open and unmoderated is the political debate within counterpublics?