RE: dissent e-community
Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:25:53 -0800 (PST)
> Hello everybody and zdrastvuite Francoise--
>
> Francoise wrote,
> > But the issue seems to be the opposite, that some
> > people feel that e-communites do not exist or exist ambiguously
> > because there is no F2F diminsion readily availalble.
>
> Virtual communities, imagined communities, fictitious communities,
> long-distance communities -- all these phenomena have existed for many
> thousand years. We are hearing voices, seeing images, talking to ghosts. My
> friends are distributed in space, time and meaning. I vote in a block with
> people whom I've never seen or heard, or smell, or touched (so called
> "neighbors"). We live in the giant semiosphere. The boundaries between
> mediated and non-mediated, between "face" and "non-face" are fuzzy and
> dynamic and reflexive (i.e., socially constructed). I've heard that some
> people even have sex on-line but it, itself, can be a virtual fact.
>
> Eugene
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Great decosntruction Eugene!
Francoise
Francoise Herrmann
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