Communities.... What do you call a community???
Is it a bunch of people who like a particular thing like dogs who paint...
I see that everyone thinks that the fundamental of a community is the people. However, is it possible that a community could be a group of dogs?? Could it be a flock of birds or animals??
The five main points of a virtual community is:
• to be an aggregate of agents
• their exchanges needed to be ‘public’ in the sense that people could enter the discourse
• these exchanges needed to utilize a shared code
• these exchanges occur over time: virtual communities do not arise overnight
• the interactions represented by these exchanges should involve strong emotional investment
Its funny, I read the second one that said 'people'... I suppose that it is, could it possibly be that a a virtual community could be anything else? COuld it be computers. I was just wondering if the way that computers talk to each other, is that virtual community? Are computers part of a virtual community?
Haha, I was just wondering. Feeling a bit rebelious... Does anyone else ever see past just the people? COuld anything else possibly be a community or virtual community?
Thanks for reading my thing?? IS it anything or nothing at all???
I found this weeks reading a bit boring...
Not in the way that Erika read it, because she always manages to be interesting. But that i just dont really enjoy being told about a virtual community, whatever it is, wherever it has been written.
The second lecture of that week was alright. I enjoyed talking and listening to people talk... I liked the many ideas that people came up with!!!
One of the most I enjoyed was the idea that people give more on the internet than they mean to. You refuse to write on your bebo page your address, but you put on a picture with your friends and behind you guys is where you live and people can actually see where you live..
Its interesting in all its creepyness!!! Its scary and weird. Just a bit to think about!
Have a good one everybody!!!!!!!!
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I don't know if you noticed, but what you wrote about here actually chimes in a bit with what we were discussing this week about the 'worth' of information - directly giving out your address is 'high value' information, yet posting a photo of you and your flatmates out front of your place is 'low value' information. Yet from either someone could figure out where you live and come snooping around your window. Do you think we're becoming more aware of these indirect disclosures of personal (and valuable) information?
Yeah I agree with Erika about the worth of the information people put on sites like bebo!
I don't even think twice when loading photos from the weekend onto bebo, yet I avoid putting up any high value information such as phone numbers or my actual address. Except the thing is that within the university network of students, most know the area of Dunedin North and could recognise my house/address anyway.
mmmm, i think that by taking this paper we are becoming aware of it, but im not really sure if other people are! If I had not taken this paper I dont think I would have noticed that people could see where I live from the low value information! But I think that as a general public, the younger people are becoming less worried than we used to be.. I dont know if it is because the whole hubub about perverts or whatever is dying down now, just like the prices of houses going down! (if you get what I mean).
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