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• Virtuelle verdener og rum
• V 6. marts 2002
• Socialitet i virtuelle verdener On-line
  communities
• Primærlitteratur uddrag af Benedikt Anderson
  Imagined Communities og af Stine Gotved
  Cybersociologi

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• The social as a community
• What is a community?
• What is an on-line community? Is it different
  from communities in general?
• Not a society as such, not just a group with
  common interests
• The tradition after Benedikt Anderson A
  community is the imagination/the imaginary
  experience of the social

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• Andersons concept of community
• Anderson All communities beyond the primal
  face-to-face are imagined, a process enabled by
  media
• Anderson Rather than asking whether on-line
  communities (as well as any other communities)
  are authentic, we should as for the style in
  which they are imagined.

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Nationalism and media Ernest Gellner Nationali
sm is not the awakening of nations to
self-consciousness it invents nations where they
do not exist.
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Nationalism and media Benedikt Anderson,
Imagined Communities The nation is imagined
because the members of even the smallest nation
will never know most of their fellow-members,
meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds
of each lives the image of their communion
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Nationalism and media Benedikt Anderson,
Imagined Communities In fact, all
communities larger than primordial villages of
face-to-face contact (and perhaps even these) are
imagined. Communities are to be distinguished,
not by their falsity/ genuineness, but by the
style in which they are imagined
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Nationalism and media Benedikt Anderson,
Imagined Communities The nation is imagined
as limited because even the largest of them has
finite, if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie
other nations
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Nationalism similar to ethnicity in that it is
often (incorrectly) assumed to be rooted in
timeless and primordial phenomena of the human
species rather, we now understand it to be a
sort of imagined community the emergence of
which many theorists suggest coincided with
the industrial revolution an invention of
modernity, linking political autonomy with
territorial and ethnic identity
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Nationalism movement of an ethnic group
demanding political autonomy Benedict
Anderson links these imagined communities to the
invention of the printing press and what he calls
print capitalism the nation-state entity
appears (for the moment) to demand some amount of
ethnic homogeneity as a function of state
political and social organization (Pledge of
Allegiance).
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• Imagined communities
• Nationalities are ethnic groups that aspire to
  autonomous statehood (regardless of their
  political history).
• The term imagined communities, coined by
  Benedict Anderson, has been used to describe
  nationalities, since most of their member
  population feel a bond with each other in the
  absence of any real acquaintance.
• Mass media and the language arts have help to
  form such imagined communities by becoming the
  means of establishing a commonalty of values,
  motivations, language, and the like.

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• On-line communities?
• What is the style in which they are imagined?
• What does the medium, i.e. the Internet, and the
  computer mean as for this style? What about
  communication design?
• What does the users behaviour mean as for the
  shaping of the imagination of on-line
  communities? Would you rather like to met
  somebody like yourself or somebody who is
  different to you?

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• Virtual communities
• Two kinds of virtual communities Well and
  LambdaMOO as examples of these different kinds.
  The Well trust, community, support LambdaMOO
  play, deconstruction, cybersex.
• Virtual Community as the postmodern version of
  Andersons imagined communities?
  (Nationality/postnationality new relationship
  local/global one-to-many/many-to-many)
• 3) Identity is not grounded in the physical body
  any longer freedom/deconstruction against
  unreliability/distrust

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• Roseanne Stone Virtual communities / consensual
  loci
• 1) they are not new, but they are a new version
  of other forms of textual communities existing in
  the past
• 2) Members of electronic vrtual communities acts
  as if they met in a physical public space
• 3) This space is conceptualised as Cartesian, a
  three dimensional space

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• Roseanne Stone Virtual communities / consensual
  loci
• 4) Conferencees act as if the virtual space was
  inhabited by bodies. Conferencees construct
  bodies on-line by describing them
• 5) Bodies in virtual space have complex erotic
  components (netsex, cyberflirt)
• 6) The meaning of locality and privacy is not
  settled
• 7) Participants can have different identities
  on-line. Names are local labels