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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")

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 #* ''[...] 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.
+#* -> 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