It may be interesting regarding the theoretical debate on the spatial conception of cyberspace: http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/teknosphera/cyberspace/cyberspace.htm regards Vas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin Jones" <GadjonesQ@netscape.net> To: "AIR LIST" <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:29 AM Subject: [Air-l] The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION A CSCW 2002 WORKSHOP The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community
AT A GLANCE What: A Workshop on Building Virtual Community Places Where: CSCW 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA When: Saturday, November 16, 2002 Submission: Position paper and profile by Friday Sept 27th (any questions please contact us we are happy to work with people) Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by Monday Oct 14 Organizers: Quentin Jones, New Jersey Institute of Technology, qgjones@acm.org Christine Halverson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, krys@us.ibm.com
The Call for Participation The adoption of modern communication technologies increasingly situates interpersonal interactions virtually. This has had an enormous impact on people's social networks as community ties shift from linking people together-in-physical-places to people-to-people-wherever-they-might-be [18]. However, these changes have not lessened the importance of place, be it virtual or physical, in shaping interaction patterns and discourse.
The term place means different things to different people, and this workshop will examine these differences in relation to virtual community. In particular this workshop aims to explore the myriad of ways that: * the design of virtual or hybrid spaces / places directly provides common ground for user interactions; and * communities use public interactions in virtual spaces to create shared meaning. This exploration will in turn be used to enable an examination of various aspects of virtual community development and maintenance.