How are communities of interest created, sustained, or reinforced in a digital environment?
Let's look at your question, rubyred grapefruit, then let's look at your support
letter. Once we examine your question, then the solution should become
obvious for you so that you may concentrate on the work of your writing.
First?
Or negates the premise, i.e., that communities are
created, and sustained in a digital world.
I would suggest substituting the word
and in its stead.
The premise, or question would then be this:
How are communities of interest created, sustained, and reinforced in the digital environment?
This way you would not have to prove the existence of such communities,
nor the existence of the digital age. Your task would then be to demonstrate
those relationships, and to examine them for their effectiveness, usefulness,
and importance. Yes? I think that's what you meant.
The letter you sent out is an interesting study in where you want to go with
this. I think if you farm that, you will find many useful ideas on what to write
about, and the right kinds of questions to ask yourself along the path of this
thesis will become plain for you.
Let's go. Shall we?
and my essay is a case study of the small press community's use of the internet. i've emailed bill, mjp and cc at the GPP, but really - the more the merrier.
from my emails:
i'm interested in how the internet creates a kind of network,
World Wide Network period. Not a
kind of network. network is more assertive than
a kind of network, and it makes for better reading.
an international or interstate (in terms of the USA) network. the bukowksi forum, bill roberts' bottle of smoke press, and the guerilla poetics project are all linked to each other
I think you mean digitally rather than
in some way
Comma
and at each of these sites you'll find links to other small presses or small press poets,
Period
A lot of the names
and a lot of the names are recurring.
There is strong connection, and support in the small press world
there seems to be a reasonably strong connection and notion of mutual support in the small press world.
It may be argued that the support and respect predate the internet, and not dependent at all upon the world wide web
but i'm wondering if this is pre-internet, and not reliant on the internet.
but where community and respect predate the digital age, in what ways
are they sustained by digital communications?
but even if those connections were created pre-internet, in what ways are they sustained by digital communications? this kind of networking, created through hyperlinks, through posting on forums, creates a kind of circle of mutual promotion, where there seems to be less competition and more of a community. do you see this as a growing system, pulling more people into the network over time, or is it simply in place due to in-person relationships (friendships or business relationships)?[/I]
Let's look at my half arsed edit in one piece:
How are communities of interest created, sustained, and reinforced in the digital environment?
I'm interested in how the internet creates a World Wide Network, and
facilitates professional relationships.
The Bukowksi forum, Bill Roberts' Bottle of Smoke Press, and the Guerilla
Poetics Project are all connected to each other digitally, and at each of these
sites you'll find links to other small presses, or small press poets. Names
reoccur. It becomes obvious that there are strong connections, and support in
the small press world.
It may be argued that the support, and respect predate the internet, and are
not dependent at all upon the world wide web, but where community and
respect predate the digital age, in what ways are they sustained, and thrive
by digital communications?
This kind of networking, created through hyperlinks, and through digital
communications, create community, and thriving professional relationships.
come on guys, help me get an A+
Well. That's a tall order. I'll offer whatever I might be able to do.
You might just
touch upon how chap books were first introduced to mankind,
and how that has evolved. i.e., writers traveled from burg to burg with hand
printed collections of their works. . . and in the modern world never have to
meet their customers, or other writers, face to face. Something like that.
