Community and the Internet

Kendall, Lori

doi:10.1002/9781444314861.ch14

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“…One's lived reality with technology is generally experienced as a blending, a mixture, of the online and the offline, rather than as one or the other (Baym ; Beer ; Cerulo and Ruane ; Chayko , ; Ess ; Floridi ; Jurgenson ; Kendall ). Nancy Baym's (1995) work on online fan communities established this as early as 1995, finding that online and offline identities and practices were deeply interwoven (see Ess ).…”

Section: The Intersection Of the Online And Offlinementioning

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Techno‐social Life: The Internet, Digital Technology, and Social Connectedness

Chayko

2014

Sociology Compass

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This essay explores what it means to be socially connected in a techno-social world. It describes how a "triple revolution" in social connectedness has been catalyzed by the ever-increasing use of the Internet, mobile communication, and social media networking (Rainie and Wellman 2012). It argues for the usefulness of the concepts of the community and the network in understanding how social connectedness is created and experienced in the use of digital (computerized) communication technology. It examines some of the consequences -both benefits and hazards -of being near-continuously available to one another via the Internet, mobile phones, and social media. And it describes how digital (online) and face-to-face (offline) spaces become fully integrated and experienced as a single, enmeshed reality. The article concludes that people's use of digital communication technology tends to strengthen social connectedness and prompt, not deter, face-to-face interaction and local community ties.Communication technology is embedded in the way people live, think, and associate with others. Technology -the practical application of tools, machines, knowledge, and ideas in productive activities, such as communicating with others ( Jary and Jary 1991, 515) -has accompanied and influenced social life since the development of picture-writing and words. For those who live in societies rich in digital (i.e., computerized) communication technology, opportunities to share information, identify interpersonal commonalities, get to know others, and interact and form social connections with them can be so plentiful that they can be said to live techno-social lives (see Chayko, forthcoming; Ito and Okabe 2005; and Zeynep Tufekci's blog technosociology.org).In the modern technologized era, digitally enabled connections are created at almost every social juncture imaginable: locally, with people in geographical proximity, across great distances, and even in online contexts independent of physical space and geography. Widespread, increasing use of the Internet, mobile communication, and social media networking has revolutionized social life. Communicating with one another readily, easily, and frequently, individuals form genuine relationships and become part of meaningful social groupings at an unprecedented rate, pace, and scope -especially those who spend significant time in expressive (vs. instrumental) Internet use (Tufekci 2008). Rather than socializing within a relatively few tightly knitted groups, people now tend to become part of numerous, far-flung, diverse social networks that they expect will meet many of their social, emotional, and even economic needs (Rainie and Wellman 2012).It should perhaps not be surprising, then, that the impact of these relatively recent technological developments is being hotly debated. How do people live within and shift among these "far-flung" networks, and what is gained and lost along the way? What are the consequences of having near-constant availability to one another? Has face-to-face interaction a...

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Section: The Intersection Of the Online And Offlinementioning

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Techno‐social Life: The Internet, Digital Technology, and Social Connectedness

Chayko

2014

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“…In present-day networked society a great many social and commercial interactions take place on internet 1 . In most instances, such interactions involve people who know each other only through an online identity 2 , without any connection whatsoever in the physical world. This is the case, for example, of internet platforms allowing private sales or exchanges among individuals 3 4 .…”

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Cooperation Survives and Cheating Pays in a Dynamic Network Structure with Unreliable Reputation

Antonioni

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Tomassini

2016

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In a networked society like ours, reputation is an indispensable tool to guide decisions about social or economic interactions with individuals otherwise unknown. Usually, information about prospective counterparts is incomplete, often being limited to an average success rate. Uncertainty on reputation is further increased by fraud, which is increasingly becoming a cause of concern. To address these issues, we have designed an experiment based on the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a model for social interactions. Participants could spend money to have their observable cooperativeness increased. We find that the aggregate cooperation level is practically unchanged, i.e., global behavior does not seem to be affected by unreliable reputations. However, at the individual level we find two distinct types of behavior, one of reliable subjects and one of cheaters, where the latter artificially fake their reputation in almost every interaction. Cheaters end up being better off than honest individuals, who not only keep their true reputation but are also more cooperative. In practice, this results in honest subjects paying the costs of fraud as cheaters earn the same as in a truthful environment. These findings point to the importance of ensuring the truthfulness of reputation for a more equitable and fair society.

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“…It goes against what some scholars see communities to be – based not on strict institutions, but on fluid notions of belonging and communication (Delanty, 2010). They are imagined (Anderson, 2006), hard to pinpoint and define (Kendall, 2011), with no clear-cut membership boundaries, often unable to present a central authority to that speaks for everyone. However, in the current new gTLD programme, they must possess said attributes to claim this digital real estate, to be represented, to avoid it falling into the hands of commercial entities.…”

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ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

Kuznetsov

2020

New Media & Society

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This study investigates Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme, exploring how it a shape of ‘community’ suitable for domain name system (DNS) expansion is constituted. Despite the apparent goal of promoting rights to freedom of expression and free association, the prevalence of the controlled vocabulary model results in preference for unopposed entities with clear hierarchical structures and strict membership boundaries. This creates a TLD landscape incapable of encompassing the heterogeneity and uncertainty of many existing communities, but helps to reinforce ICANN’s discourse surrounding the function of the DNS and its role in Internet governance.

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Community and the Internet

Cited by 22 publications

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Techno‐social Life: The Internet, Digital Technology, and Social Connectedness

Techno‐social Life: The Internet, Digital Technology, and Social Connectedness

Cooperation Survives and Cheating Pays in a Dynamic Network Structure with Unreliable Reputation

ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

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