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"Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics. Perhaps nothing will be as surprising about 21st-century America as its settledness. #Americans actually are becoming less nomadic. As recently as the 1970s as many as one in five people moved annually; by 2006, long before the current recession took hold, that number was 14 percent, the lowest rate since the census starting following movement in 1940. #

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The collection of contemporary sociological theory, inc. Foucault, GIDDENS!, Bourdieu, Bauman, and Habermas (+ Ervin GOFFMAN, ch. 3 from "The presentation of self in everyday life"

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#the contemporary self wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.

# So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone.

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SAM GOSLING: #music is the most popular topic raised when people are given the task of getting to know one another. #mainly we want others to see us as we see ourselves. #People judged on the basis of their FB profiles tend to be judged as they actually see themselves. #extroverts have more friends than introverts and some people try to accumulate enormous FB social circles #Many of the social, cultural, and technological innovations of the past two millennia have contributed to divisions of the self, allowing us to separate our professional identities from several personal identities. SNWs are smoothing over those cracks in our identities. Even with the advent of professional SNWs (LinkedIn) and attempts by some SNWs to separate user groups it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain clear boundaries between our formerly separate selves. #psychological research has shown that people who can integrate their different selves end up better off than those who keep themselves divided

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papers and reports on virtual society

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Clay Shirky, who has studied these phenomena since 1993, has a theory about that response. "People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.”.... “It is a constant surprise to those of us over a certain age, let’s say 30, that large parts of our life can end up online,” says Shirky. “But that’s not a behavior anyone under 30 has had to unlearn.” .. “It used to be that we were all in this together. But now my job is not to demystify, but to get the students to see that it’s strange or unusual at all. Because they’re soaking in it.”...It’s hard to pinpoint when the change began. Was it 1992, the first season of The Real World?

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Consensus reality is an approach to answering 'What is real?', a profound philosophical question, it is almost invariably used to refer to human consensus reality. It gives a practical answer-reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist. The term is usually used disparagingly as by implication it may mean little more than "what a group or culture chooses to believe" and challenges the notion of "true reality". In considering the nature of reality, 2 broad approaches exist: the realist approach, in which there is a single objective overall space-time reality believed to exist irrespective of the perceptions of any given individual, and the idealistic approach, in which it is considered that an individual can verify little except his own experience of the world, and can never directly know the truth of the world separate from that.

Consensus reality may be understood by studying socially constructed reality, a subject within the sociology of knowledge.

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online publications on social construction by Kenneth J. Geregen

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Kenneth Gergen has research interests in narratives of the self; processes of social construction; psychological discourse, theory formation and evaluation; relational theory, rhetoric of inquiry; and culture critique.

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articles/ links on social construction

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the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture and life online

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"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner published by The New Yorker on 5 July 1993. The cartoon shows two dogs: One sitting on a chair in front of a computer, speaking the caption to a second dog sitting on the floor. #The phrase can "mean that cyberspace will be liberatory because gender, race, age, looks, or even 'dogness' are potentially absent or alternatively fabricated or exaggerated with unchecked creative license for a multitude of purposes both legal and illegal", an understanding that echoed statements made in 1996 by John Gilmore, a key figure in the history of Usenet. The phrase also suggests the ability to "computer crossdress" and represent oneself as a different gender, age, race, etc. On another level, "the freedom which the dog chooses to avail itself of, is the freedom to 'pass' as part of a privileged group; i.e. human computer users with access to the Internet."

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Sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have revolutionized interpersonal relationships for the digital age. Within these online communities, users share status updates, self-generated media, journal entries and other interpersonal communication with an ever-growing cadre of online friends. The purpose is to reinforce established friendships and form bonds with new friends. "They start in the mid-late 1990s based on this idea that Stanley Milgram had that everybody's connected by six degrees of separation—and the first one was actually called 'sixdegrees.com.'" "They're based on the premise that you're more likely to want to get to know people who know people you already know than all-out strangers. So rather than a dating site that just has people putting up profiles and trying to randomly match, what if you could put up profiles of people that had shared friends. Wouldn't those be more likely to succeed?" #Baym recently has completed research on Last.fm, a niche site that connects fans of similar music. She found that online friendships based on common taste in music tended to be more fragile, although people also used the site to maintain closer relationships. "What I found on Last.fm was that on average these relationships are not very strong," said the KU researcher. "Other people have described them as on average being weak ties, which means that you don't discuss a wide range of topics. You don't do a variety of activities together. You tend to be kind of specialized in what topics you talk about. You interact when you run into each other but you don't seek each other out and your communication is confined to fewer media." # "But what having a lot of weak-tie relationships is giving you access to are a lot of resources that you wouldn't otherwise have. Because we do tend to cluster in relationships with strong ties to people that are pretty similar to ourselves. So they don't necessarily know a whole lot that we don't know. They haven't necessarily been a lot of places that we haven't been. They can't

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A virtual community - a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as newsletters, telephone, email, internet social network service or instant messages rather than face to face, for social, professional, educational or other purposes. If the mechanism is a computer network, it is called an online community. Virtual and online communities have also become a supplemental form of communication between people who know each other primarily in real life. Many means are used in social software separately or in combination, including text-based chatrooms and forums that use voice, video text or avatars. Significant socio-technical change may have resulted from the proliferation of such Internet-based social networks. ONLINE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION: 1.Peripheral (Lurker) – An outside, unstructured participation 2. Inbound (Novice) – Newcomer is invested in the community and heading towards full participation 3. Insider (Regular) – Full committed community participant 4. Boundary (Leader) – A leader, sustains membership participation and brokers interactions 5. Outbound (Elder) – Process of leaving the community due to new relationships, new positions, new outlooks

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#"Identity is often characterized by one's personality traits, interpersonal characteristics such as the roles and relationships one takes in various interactions, the skill one process, and one's personal values or moral beliefs. #"D.I. may consists of a personal digital identity and a social digital identity. D.I. then leads to the online presentation. Establishing D.I., people people want to make a desired impression to others online and project a wanted online image (p.98)....

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#For 44%, using social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook had no effect on their relationship with their friends; 43% said it made them closer.#"It's possible to have face-to-face friends and go online and talk to people you don't hang out with in school," she says. "It's a chance to have relationships in a different way."#There's been a fascination about new relationships and trying to pit what happens online against what happens face-to-face. It's never been the case that they are in opposition to one another. It always overlaps," she says. "If you track relationships over time, you can't tell the difference between a relationship that started online and one that began to face-to- face."

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"self-representation and avatar usage can be a serious matter online. The avatars we chose to represent ourselves have an impact on how we behave and also on how we’re perceived online. That’s why sites that easily allow you to change your avatar often are more engaging and interactive. People change their avatar to reflect their mood, send secret messages to other friends, display self- attributes, social role, a fantasy representation of who they want to be or they might just want to provoke." "The researchers concluded that Facebook self-presentation is very much about showing who you are in relationship to others rather than as an individual."

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Online, users can claim to be whoever they wish. Like actors playing a role, they can deliberately choose to put forth identity cues or claims of self that can closely resemble or wildly differ from reality. With the rise of Web 2.0 and the growth of social networking sites, the virtual spaces for these portrayals of alternate identities seems near endless. But with these new sites and channels rise questions and disagreements over what constitutes public and private conversation and interaction, and the links between these manufactured and mediated identities.

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In Social Psychology the concept of _Identity_ formation stresses how a subject is demarcated as an individual.

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