Hi all, Culture is a concept, so we can describe it the same way we describe cultures in general (in terms of values and artifacts) although it is rather like describing human (or world) culture. The Web in itself presents a variety of different spaces, each of them with its own set of characteristics. Is bloggers culture the same as Facebook culture? There is probably some overlap, but number of people will embrace one, but not the other. As someone pointed out, Web is an artifact, although we can still talk about the culture of Internet users, who are similar to other cultural groups that are identified on the bases of the activities they do (a specific music culture, soccer culture etc) rather than national/ethnic upbringing. Additionally, if we consider web an artifact, than we have to keep in mind that its content is created by people of different cultural (national/ethnic) backgrounds that will be reflected in the web content and interaction. Someone mentioned once to me that the Web user culture can be described in the terms of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (low power, high individualism, masculine, etc.) but I have never found an actual citation to that research. If anybody seen a study discussing web culture from this perspective, please let me know. Best, Ewa Callahan Assistant Professor of Communications Quinnipiac university -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Hall, Richard H. Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:14 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] What is web culture? 1) How would you define web culture? 2) How is it unique, in comparison to other cultures? 3) What are some good/classic resources on the web describing and defining web culture? ... Thanks ... Richard -- Richard H. Hall Professor and Program Director, Information Science and Technology Missouri S&T http://mst.edu/~rhall _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/