I'm more of a lurker here but I thought I might try to weigh in on this "web culture" thing. Pardon any incoherence, it's been a long week and this is mostly stream of consciousness. As I understand it, "web culture" is a misnomer. The term seems to have been created to describe that slightly different way things seem to occur online when compared to related offline experiences, but I think this is all barking up the wrong tree. Cyberspace (in this instance, AKA the Web, the Internet) is a virtual world extension; it's an extension of our real world. Saying that there is a unique culture in cyberspace is the same as claiming that there is a unique culture in your toolshed. Culture is something produced, carried, consumed, displayed, etc, by the people that occupy a space, not the space itself. Therefore, there isn't a "Web culture", but the cultures of the people interacting with one another within the Web. They may have different tools available to communicate and share that culture, but I don't think that those tools beget a culture in their own right. e.g. "Web culture" didn't produce LOLcats, "bored teen culture" (or something like that) did. The ease of sharing LOLcats online is what made them popular. Hope this helps... Greg Williams e-: greg@lexiphanic.com P.S. Apologies if I'm on the wrong track! :)