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KMsAngel -> Community redefined (4/21/2011 7:42:44 AM)
i may be late to the game here, but i do rather hide under a rock a lot.... i've been thinking a lot about the definition of "community" lately. people like MaxsBoy, Linnea, FukinTroll, LaT, LadyPact and a few others have sparked it in various ways, as well as a number of others. i'm doing a social work degree, and community is my preferred area of interest, so i look for inspiration from all directions. THIS was profound on many levels, i hope you enjoy it as much as i did. I was watching a TED podcast where he described it's inception, fascinating talk.... Enjoy have to admit, he's a hot blonde. and i don't much like blonde men......[:D]

sunshinemiss -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 7:48:18 AM)
Oh... I was watching that TED talk last week! Love it! Inspired a new project in fact. Angel is just watching that video because it is like angels singing....

KMsAngel -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 7:49:58 AM)
ah sunshine, you're one of the people i was going to attribute on another site..... you were my very first thought when i heard it. teaching. another "language". all over the world..... it is rather like angel's singing, isn't it?[:)]

ChatteParfaitt -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 8:07:49 AM)
Lovely video, thanks for sharing that. As for the community topic, as a student of sociology I assume you know of the emerging subbranch of sociocultural anthropology which is studying the anthropology of cyberspace. In the past, sociologists have often disagreed on their definition of the term "community," though in the past (pre-internet) we could probably agree community is a group of interacting people living in a common location. The rise of social networks and virtual communities has literally redefined this basic definition and set sociocultural anthropologists on their collective asses. Not only are we redefining the word community, but researchers must reinvent their metohodologies as well. These days, the traditional notion of a community sharing a common location is outdated. As you can imagine, I look forward to new advances in this most exciting area of anthropology.

sunshinemiss -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 8:24:21 AM)
It reminds me of the definition of "friend" and how it has changed over the years. Remember when you had spent time with your friends, breathing the same air?

GreedyTop -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 8:40:42 AM)
gorgeous. just gorgeous.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 10:50:13 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt These days, the traditional notion of a community sharing a common location is outdated. Actually, they just need to re-evaluate what they refer to as "location." If you think of "web communities," it is the web site that is the common location. Just food for thought.

ChatteParfaitt -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 11:09:59 AM)
They ARE re-evaluating what they mean by location in terms of community. That would be a major point of my post. However, from a research point of view, taking a fixed geographic location and translating that to a virtual web location is not as easy as it may at first appear. Sociologists, who have traditionally done field work in a fixed geographic location, must now change their methodology for gathering and evaluating information. I admit in my earlier post I was speaking in more specific terms for what kind of impact this re-evaluating and re-defining will have on sociologists, as the OP mentioned: "i'm doing a social work degree, and community is my preferred area of interest," For what it is worth, I have long considered the virtual BDSM world a "community."

hlen5 -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 11:58:22 AM)
Thanks for posting this! Beautiful! I had heard of this but hadn't seen it. I loved watching EW's hands, so graceful. Edited for unclaimed hands!!

juliaoceania -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 12:31:06 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady quote: ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt These days, the traditional notion of a community sharing a common location is outdated. Actually, they just need to re-evaluate what they refer to as "location." If you think of "web communities," it is the web site that is the common location. Just food for thought. I would agree with that. One of my favorite books on communities is called "Imagined Communities" by Benedict Anderson. In other words, communities are an imagined construct and their delimitations are constantly changing based upon the individual who is imagining them. Get right down to it, we all share a community, it is called the Global Community, how that is divided up is a subjective thing

sunshinemiss -> RE: Community redefined (4/21/2011 4:42:35 PM)
angel - cmail.

KMsAngel -> RE: Community redefined (4/22/2011 8:44:21 AM)
quote: One of my favorite books on communities is called "Imagined Communities" by Benedict Anderson. In other words, communities are an imagined construct and their delimitations are constantly changing based upon the individual who is imagining them. thank you for the title, i'll look it up! one of my essays is about the 'net gen' and how they're learning so much differently than how the schools currently teach. the standard mthod is passive, and for many who were born virtually into the net, they are very pro-active about looking up and challenging accepted views and there creativity is pulled from multiple sources, much like how the virtual choir was started. it's a fascinating concept, isn't it? 'the world keeps shrinking' is such a throwaway phrase, but it's such a reality these days. chatteparfait, it's comments by a number of people on here that made me look at it not just as an interesting creative project, but to see communities in his graphics, and the strands linking each 'country globe' as the links we share with others in our community, no matter how far or close they are... thanks for all the comments!

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