Fri, 2 Dec 1994 17:42:59 -0800 for <socgrad@UCSD.EDU>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 20:42:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Lanny Lalumondier <lalumonl+@pitt.edu>
Subject: METACOMMUNITY - human spatialness of interaction 
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU
        "Frank D. Beck" <FDBI@psuvm.psu.edu>, smithm@nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu,
        Roland Robertson <rolandr+@pitt.edu>,
        Lanny La Lumondier <lalumonl@ucs.orst.edu>,
        mitchell richard sociology <mitchelr@ucs.orst.edu>,
        Charles Langford <langforc@ucs.orst.edu>,
        Harry Sharp <hsharp@cymbal.aiz.calpoly.edu>,
        Mike-Frank Epitopoulas <KARP@vms.cis.pitt.edu>,
        Rachelle D Schaaf <rdsst19+@pitt.edu>,
        "Anthony L. Lack" <allst18+@pitt.edu>,
        Linda M Purinton <lmpst13+@pitt.edu>
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What exactly constitutes community doesn't.

What I have observed within the electronic communities of sociology would 
lead me to say that abstraction isn't required to describe or examine 
cyberspace, although it may be helpful.  To what extent this community 
may operate in regards of "...territory/locality local culture, and 
locality/community oriented interaction..." is problematic.  To exclude the
multiple levels and modes of interactional-communities, which may not be 
anchored in traditional spatially-defined norms, is to deny the legitimacy 
of norms which those communities exist with.   TO DO SUCH is paramount to 
using similar critical approaches as those of 
ethno/racial/gender/methodological centrists...n'cest pas?

How would you describe ~~us~~?

It may be that you are observing, as I have been, an unfolding? 

What it is that you (or I) believe exists in cyberspace may be not what 
is in cyberspace. 

Does not the sociological imagination include different dimensions of 
application?  Should the sociotechno system be removed from all 
consideration of community-type analysis?

Sure...make communities across cyberspace...make communities `nexus-to' 
cyberspace. Meanwhile...real people are experiencing `community' in 
cyberspace.  Let's study and discuss them/us, also.

Lanny La Lumondier
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
University of Pittsburgh







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