::fibreculture:: Re: posting guidelines

[Linda Wallace]

this is an interesting discussion -- I think about lists and their dynamics
quite a lot. what makes people respond and engage, and in which ways they do
so, is mysterious. sometimes sending a post or replying to something is like
opening the wrong door at a party, finding a room full of snarling dogs
rather than the beer and beanbags.

I wrote a piece which takes a spatial approach in 1998 about lists, and in
particular faces. it was in the nettime ReadME publication, and is online at

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9810/msg00107.html

linda





On 27/8/05 1:54 AM, "Anna Munster" <a.munster at unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> 
> On 26/08/2005, at 6:32 PM, Alexia Fry wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Is the utilisation of different 'civic' means of electronic
>> communication (forums, elists, blogs) a selection criteria for
>> audience type, participation and social/ structural dynamics (such as
>> tempo)?
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you're asking here...but I'm sure there are a
> range of studies into these different networked forms that also inquire
> into how these frame, solicit audience....
> 
> However, what I think is lacking is an aesthetic inquiry into the
> sociality of networked relations and perhaps also a lack of
> philosophical questioning of the social in the network. This would be
> more a kind of 'meta' inquiry - ie what do we mean by the social in/of
> the network, how is relationality constituted by/in the network.
> 
> Of course there are lots and lots of sociological and ethnographic
> studies that focus on audience and participation via lists, blogs etc,
> but these, and I'm being very generalist here, tend to focus on the
> 'nodes' - ie the who and the what - not the relationality - the how...
>> 
>>   Would you offer opinions on a hot topic that is not directly in your
>> way just because it looks to be where the action is happening?
> 
> that is an interesting question and I think pertains to the issue of
> temporality in the network and to issues of crowd/mob dynamics but also
> to a more general economy of information in which we all continue to
> operate - 'just-in-time' service economy, in which the time for
> consideration is spliced out
>> 
>> I'd be interested to know of you thoughts on these ideas.
> 
> the above are really Saturday morning ramblings rather than thoughts;-)
> anna
> 
> 
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