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Three Metaphors And A Community

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  • guestcf763df Sian Bayne I really enjoyed this Tony. I found the anatomy-cartography-archaeology metaphors rich and each deserving of an assignment in itself. Like Nicola, I would also defend the idea that a social site *can* embody community, though it does not necessarily imply it.

    One point I particularly wanted to raise, was to do with the suggestion here that dissent among bloggers implies that they are not a community. I'd argue against this - it seems to me that community doesn't necessarily imply harmony. On the contrary, surely it is partly the ability to negotiate dissent and disagreement among members which distinguishes community from other forms of social grouping? I don't agree with, or even like, everyone who lives in my tenement stair, but that doesn't mean that we don't constitute a neighbourhood community.

    Is any community 'homogenous'? Again, surely the inverse is true - isn't it the ability to tolerate/work with heterogeneity which constitutes a group as 'community'?

    Many interesting thoughts prompted by this anyway - thank you!     3 years ago
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  • suchprettyeyes Nicola Osborne, Social Media Officer at EDINA Tony, I think I would defend the fact that activity around a site can be a community but of course many sites - even social sites - are not necessarily communities just because there are social interactions of some sort.

    The archeology example seems apt after reading various ethnographies where digging deeper has found significantly more complex views onto the community that contradicted expectations and/or statistical information of a given site. I also thought your reflection on the lack of areas of exchange/discussion/overlap in political blogging was interesting - do you think that could reflect the self-interest and parochialism of politics more or is there something unique about blogging that makes it a special case? I wasn't sure what those unique cultural and functional differentiators that might be making a big difference to political blogging.     3 years ago
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