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There is an intimate connection between informal conversations, the kind that take place in communities and virtual communities, in the coffee shops and computer conferences, and the ability of large social groups to govern themselves without monarchs or dictators. This social-political connection shares a metaphor with the idea of cyberspace, for it takes place in a kind of virtual space that has come to be known by specialists as the public sphere.
As these virtual communities continue to grow, the groups control the ability to create a type of government within these forums. The idea of democracy is prevalent here in that all voices can be heard and distributed to everyone who is apart of it.
there are actually banks of people sitting in front of monitors somewhere, reading postings from Prodigy subscribers, erasing the ones with offensive content. This measure dealt effectively with the outbreak of racist and anti-Semitic invective.
Unlike some, Prodigy uses censorship to prevent offensive comments from people. The question rises as to whether this is good, to prevent offending people or is it an obstruction peoples ability to voice their thoughts? Does this resemble a type of government?
The goal of every hacker is to attain the system powers granted only to the person who knows the system password, and that includes the power to erase all records of previous conversations, all current e-mail, everything in everybody's private file area. Most hackers just want to explore. Others are vandals.
Hackers prove to be a problem even in these virtual communities. Although some just look around, others have the ability to steal personal info and cause some major damage. Just like with most things on the internet, it is important to be careful and vigilant for these kinds of intrusions.
He meets the locals, who are frustrated by the old ways of doing things. Hughes takes out his laptop, plugs it into the nearest telephone, reveals the scope and power of the Net, and enlightens the crowd. He tempts them into putting their hands on the keyboard, and they're hooked. When Hughes rides out of town, the town is on the Net.
Hughes gives these people a new way to voice their opinions and read about the opinions of others. These small towns begin local online discussions that become virtual communities through the dialogue that is formed.
It is a mass medium because any piece of information put onto the Net has a potential worldwide reach of millions. But it differs from conventional mass media in several respects. Every individual who has the ability to read a Usenet posting has the ability to reply or to create a new posting. In television, newspapers, magazines, films, and radio, a small number of people have the power to determine which information should be made available to the mass audience. In Usenet, every member of the audience is also potentially a publisher.
Usenet allows for massive communities to grow through simple posts. Unlike conventional media it gives people the ability to read, respond an publish. This allows for the community to continue to grow with its thousands of discussions constantly going on with people from all over the world.
The word anarchy is frequently used to describe Usenet, not in the sense of chaotic and disorganized, but in the sense that the whole enterprise of moving all these words from all these people to all these other people is accomplished with no central governing hierarchy on either policy or technical levels. This grew directly out of the way Usenet postings were designed to be passed around the loosely coupled UUCP network. From the beginning, there was no emphasis on a central organization.
This type of programming bears a resemblance to an anarchist type of government. Anyone who posts on it can be responded to privately or publicly. Usenet lacks organization in that it practically anyone can join and speak and there are few rules to how that is achieved.
Without competition, they say, the government will have created a monopoly that has little incentive to innovate,"
The governments vast control over the internet allows for monopolization especially when it does have to compete with others to obtain and grow it.
Unix was designed for programmers of interactive computers who needed to be able to build tools for each other, share those tools, and propagate successful tools throughout the programmer community
This ability to build tools online for these virtual communities helps them grow just like any other community would. They work, share and grow in this virtual society.
The vision of a citizen-designed, citizen-controlled worldwide communications network is a version of technological utopianism that could be called the vision of "the electronic agora."
I find this idea interesting because it focuses on the more forward thinking ideas regarding virtual communities. It takes the marketplace, or a place of social interaction, and shows how that can also take place online.
to facilitate communications among interesting people in the San Francisco Bay area,
Interesting to read about the early desires for virtual communities
It would be a self-designing experiment. . . . The early users were to design the system for later users. The usage of the system would co-evolve with the system as it was built. . . .
This community was created and engineered to sustain itself by having those who join it, essentially take care of it and grow it.
Some people--many people--don't do well in spontaneous spoken interaction, but turn out to have valuable contributions to make in a conversation in which they have time to think about what to say.
Although the previous paragraph talks about the worries people have regarding the internet, this goes into how online interactions can be beneficial for many people.
both as it affects my family and what is known about it generally.
This sentence shows how general and yet how specific and intimate online interactions can be. While Leukemia is discussed and researched by many, each person and family that experiences it has their own stories and sharing about it online helps them reach audiences and form bonds with others who are going through similar things.
Divide students into staged groups that rotate with different assignments. Make one group the “first responders,” the second group the “arguers,” and the third group the “consensus builders,” to insure that students engage with their peers.
Understanding how this type of virtual classroom is different from what most of us are familiar with, I think these three bullet points are interesting ways to keep the participation throughout the members unique and constant. They are offer different ways for students to prepare and engage for class room discussions.