::fibreculture:: Re: posting guidelines

[Anna Munster]

On 26/08/2005, at 6:32 PM, Alexia Fry wrote:
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> 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...
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>   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
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> 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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