This thread is very interesting to me as I am writing my dissertation looking at challenges in international virtual workplaces. My focus is on the back and forth communication of the workplace. Much of the discussion here dichotomizes the concept of web culture: there is one culture or there are two cultures. I have collected most of my data at this point and am just beginning to analyze it, but it seems to me that online culture and f2f culture are both strikingly similar and strikingly different. That statement may sound too broad to be useful, but I think it conveys significant truth. Online communication modes shape and are shaped by culture. I would like to refer to this thread in my analysis as you all have made some excellent points. May I ask your permission to do so? Best Regards, Pam Pamela Estes Brewer Lecturer Department of English Appalachian State University PhD Candidate, Texas Tech University phone 828-262-2351 fax 828-262-2133 email brewerpe@appstate.edu Christian Nelson wrote:
I haven't been following this thread, but saw this short note and it struck a chord. Particularly the statement that our modes of interaction "shape" the resultant culture. First question: Do all interactions result in a culture (or the alteration of one)? Second: Do communication modes "shape" interaction or set boundaries for them based on (participants perceptions of) what they afford (in Gibson's sense)? Third, assuming that communication modes set boundaries rather than shape interaction, do differences in boundaries necessarily (or ever) result in differences in culture?
--Christian Nelson
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Marj Kibby wrote:
If there were people who regularly interacted in your toolshed they would develop a 'toolshed' culture - a set of practices, beliefs and understandings shaped by their mode of interaction.
Marj
Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture Faculty of Education and Arts The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604
Mary-Helen Ward <mhward@usyd.edu.au> 01/18/08 6:51 PM >>>
If I had a toolshed it wouldn't have any people interacting in it ...
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