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




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

Revision as of 22:41, 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.
  • 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.


Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts: