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* CMC users assume that they can overcome the tyranny of geography through 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. | * 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]: | * [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. | |||
'''Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:''' | '''Discussion Notes & Afterthoughts:''' | ||
Revision as of 22:26, 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: 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: