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'''Keywords:'''
'''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:'''
'''Summary of key points raised in the text:'''
 
* Like in the physical world, there are tensions between the individual and the collective in cyberspace.
* 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]: 




'''Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:'''
'''Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:'''

Revision as of 22:12, 17 October 2010

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.

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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.
  • 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:


Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts: