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Virtual Sociability - From Community to Communitas: Selected papers from the Purdue Online Interaction Theory Seminar, vol. 1 (Paperback)
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Virtual Sociability - From Community to Communitas: Selected papers from the Purdue Online Interaction Theory Seminar, vol. 1 (Paperback)
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To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called
"sociability"? In other words, do these exchanges amount to any
meaningful type of social organization? Are they more than the mere
froth of collective emotion discharging its energy with a lot of
noise but little consequence against the wave breakers of social
media? Do the social interactions that take place in virtual
space-all those kind or not-so-kind words sent back and
forth-suggest the same level of commitment, dedication, morality,
passion, or even depravity that we see in everyday life? Or, more
succinctly, is sociability online less "social," less "real" than
what we see in everyday life? The present collection of papers
reflects some of the most insightful contributions to the Purdue
Online Interaction Seminar. Representing a variety of interpretive
frameworks, the conversation is circumscribed by a number of
themes, of which two are most important. The first one is the
nature of online sociability. Are or could online groups be
"community-like," bound by ties as strong as those of kith and kin?
Should they be qualified as a type of contractual, rational,
self-interested "society"? Or should we propose a new interpretive
framework? Should online communities be seen as a type of
"communitas," which is a form of social aggregation that appears
during certain initiation rituals? If this is so, are
communitas-like virtual spaces characterized by the same transient,
liminal state that mixes a variety of contradictory characteristics
(temporary and permanent, close and distant, essential and
fleeting) that we observe in other types of "communitas"? Can
virtual communitas lead to social and personal transformation, just
like its traditional counterpart? Table of Contents Sorin Adam
Matei Introduction 1 The book is dead Long live the ubibook 9 User
Guide 16 Susan Huelsing Sarapin Front Porches and Public Spaces:
Planned Communities Online 20 Pamela Morris Glimpses of Community
on the Web 45 Brenda Berkelaar Van Pelt Peering Behind the Curtain:
The Virtual Wizard Offers No Guarantees 59 Brian C. Britt The
Invisible Man: Speaking into the Online Void 84 Robert N. Yale
Welcome to I-berspace: Media Gratifications in Successful Virtual
Communities 101 Christina Kalinowski Individualism Online:
Virtually Escaping the 'Massness' or Vanishing into the
'Electrovoid'? 119 W. Scott Sanders SIDE Theory, Small World
Networks, and Smart Mob Formation: A Beginner's Guide 136 Online
Interaction Seminar: Selected Readings and Discussion Topics 153
Author Biographies 162
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