Fragmented by Technologies: A Community in Cyberspace
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Description: Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking.
(April 01, 1997)
+ Page 7 + ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ####### ######## ######## ########### ### ### ## ### ## # ### # Interpersonal Computing and ### ### ## ### ## ### Technology: ### ### ## ### ### An Electronic Journal for ### ######## ### ### the 21st Century ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ## ### ISSN: 1064-4326 ### ### ### ## ### April, 1997 ####### ### ######## ### Volume 5, Number 1-2, pp. 7-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Additional support provided by Georgetown University University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Northern Arizona University This article is archived as DAVIS IPCTV5N2 on [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRAGMENTED BY TECHNOLOGIES [1]: A COMMUNITY IN CYBERSPACE MIKE DAVIS Lecturer in Adult Education Centre for Adult and Higher Education University of Manchester [2] INTRODUCTION The emergence of the Internet as a potential medium of communication raises a number of issues, not least among them, whether the sense of community that may arise in face- to-face (F2F) interaction will be possible to replicate in virtual space. In other words, will computer mediated communication (CMC) allow people, who may be distant in time and space, context and culture from one another, to manifest some or all of the characteristics of groups in physical and temporal contact. There does seem to be some evidence to support the view that the various channels of CMC (email, synchronous and asynchronous fora) can help sustain links that already exist. Friends and colleagues find email readily accessible - if you are an academic, or you have a phone and a modem, (but access is an issue not addressed in this paper.) Often thought of as an emergent register (Ferrera et al, 1991) email communication possesses neither the formality of written correspondence nor the immediacy and ethereal
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