All Annotations of Virtual Encounters[Preview]

saved by2 people, first byAdam B on 2007-09-14, last byMike Wesch on 2008-01-03

• As such, these identities are direct
  
  
  responses to the moment, emergent from the encounter rather than framed by
  
  
  the mores, prohibitions and inscriptions of off-line society and subjectivity.
  • on 2007-09-14 11:40:27 Abo46n2
    Example?
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  Locating this type of accountability as community is problematic for it evokes
  
  
  the binarist antagonism or individual versus community in which the [male]
  
  
  individual with attributed rights is privileged over the [female] community,
  
  
  inscribed with an ethic of care. According to feminist and philosopher Iris
  
  
  Marion Young, "individualism and community have a common logic underlying
  
  
  their polarity, which makes it possible for them to define each other negatively.
  
  
  Each entails a denial of difference and desire to bring multiplicity and heterogeneity
  
  
  into unity, although in opposing ways" [18].
  • on 2007-09-14 11:57:18 Abo46n2
    Schismogenesis
• Community
  • on 2007-09-14 12:03:17 Abo46n2
    "Community": similar character; agreement; identity: community of interests.

• on 2007-09-14 13:09:35 Abo46n2
  In this article, Carroli discusses the concept of community as it applies to online and offline contexts. She argues that the word community is lacking in describing the kinds of encounters and relations formed on the internet. She prefers the terminology of collaboration in describing the interaction of strangers in mediated contexts. As evidence against using the term community with respect to these contexts, she cites the fragmentation, fluidity, and mutability of online identity. This interpretation can also be extended offline in the sense that online collaboration also effects offline concepts of community. Carroli invites us to consider the possibilities of rethinking our present concepts of community in the digital age.