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'''Notes on Jan Fernback's The Individual within the Collective''' | '''Notes on Jan Fernback's The Individual within the Collective''' | ||
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#Central questions: | #Central questions: | ||
* How is collectivity in cyberspace jusxtaposed against individuality? | #* How is collectivity in cyberspace jusxtaposed against individuality? | ||
* How is cyberspace used as a public space and what does this mean for the collectivity? | #* How is cyberspace used as a public space and what does this mean for the collectivity? | ||
* How are anarchy and dissent dealt with among the collectivity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) users? | #* How are anarchy and dissent dealt with among the collectivity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) users? | ||
# On '''space''': ''[...] space is not matter, but a set of culturally bound relations as well as an empirical construction.'' '''''Urry (1985)''''' | # On '''(cyber)space''': | ||
#* ''[...] space is not matter, but a set of culturally bound relations as well as an empirical construction.'' '''''Urry (1985)''''' | |||
#* The development of electronic communication technologies has abrogated space and time such that we live in a boundless "global village" with "no sense of place". (~McLucah & Meyrowitz) | |||
:: -> widespread use of CMC made re-examination of our concept of space necessary. | |||
#* Cyberspace is popular culture: a pixelated mirror of everyday life and all it's 'features' | |||
#* CMC as an example of | |||
# Users as consumers: | |||
#* Our participation in public life has been reduced to our media consumption | |||
#* Television as the main tool for mediaconsumption (passive consumption) | |||
# Openness of cyberspace: only rules are social propriety and "netiquette" | |||
:: -> Flaming and virtual harassment ("dark side of CMC") | |||
Revision as of 22:51, 23 October 2010
Notes on Jan Fernback's The Individual within the Collective
- Central questions:
- How is collectivity in cyberspace jusxtaposed against individuality?
- How is cyberspace used as a public space and what does this mean for the collectivity?
- How are anarchy and dissent dealt with among the collectivity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) users?
- On (cyber)space:
- [...] space is not matter, but a set of culturally bound relations as well as an empirical construction. Urry (1985)
- The development of electronic communication technologies has abrogated space and time such that we live in a boundless "global village" with "no sense of place". (~McLucah & Meyrowitz)
- -> widespread use of CMC made re-examination of our concept of space necessary.
- Cyberspace is popular culture: a pixelated mirror of everyday life and all it's 'features'
- CMC as an example of
- Users as consumers:
- Our participation in public life has been reduced to our media consumption
- Television as the main tool for mediaconsumption (passive consumption)
- Openness of cyberspace: only rules are social propriety and "netiquette"
- -> Flaming and virtual harassment ("dark side of CMC")