Thursday, February 12, 2009

Quick Thought... on Internet Communities.

Aren't Internet communities - especially when they involve a certain amount of communication between registered users on a multiplicity of (random) subject like twitter, message boards or popular blogs - imagined communities like nations, as described by Benedict Anderson?
Or is it "just" a sign that you're spending too much time on the Internet when you start coming up with such comparisons, start imagining a web based communal identity like you imagine a national identity?

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous20:03

    Yes it is just that.In fact, media studies is going more in that direction, check out www.theory.org.uk all about that, plus cool fookalt figurines...vicki

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  2. Brilliant. Thought somebody should be working on that by now - it's so obvious when you think about it.

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