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Nate
5/12/01 1:26:55 PM, Judith Diamondstone
<diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>I've thought of "community" in AT as "community of
reference" -- i.e., the
>backdrop against which 'relevance' emerges.
>
>The answer to Don's q:
>
>My confusion of community with the activity system is
perhaps
>understandable since in this example (and in others, I
imagine) XMCAites are
>a part of the community of those inspired by CHAT. The
subject could, in
>another analysis, be what is here represented as the
community. What would
>BE the community in that analysis, I wonder?
>
>would of course depend on Don's project more generally ('it
depends') but
>could for instance be social theorists around the world.
>
>'community of reference' indexes for me the semiotic nature
of processes of
>consumption -- the colletctive subject of xmca participants
orient to one
>another as well as to a wider community/ies, whereas in
'production,'
>semiosis is instrumental: the subject orients to the obj.
>
>Judy
>
>
Due to the energy crisis the light at the end of the tunnel
has been shut off.
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