"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net
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Involved here is also a newcomer selection and socialisation process: those resourceful enough to find the FAQs, courageous enough to ask established community members for help, and generally willing to accept the community's existing patterns of interaction, will be readily admitted into the community. On the other hand, those overwhelmed by quality or quantity of community interaction may choose to remain silent 'lurkers', while people with too radical or oppositional views or overly inflated egos will be ostracised.15 Again, novices are more likely to receive this help from newsgroups than mailing-lists, both because they are likely to repeat (disallowed) frequently asked questions, and because their limited knowledge of community resources means that they may not be aware of mailing-lists at all. Bit 28
Concert and album reviews, and interviews: An area with links to news and questions of genre boundaries and knowledge repetition (for new evaluations of older albums, and assessments of bands' developments in reviews of recent events).16 While interviews are frequently published in mailing-lists (and on dedicated Web sites like Anil Prasad's Innerviews), as has been pointed out, further discussions of these interviews as well as, occasionally, transcriptions of IRC chats with Prog artists appear in the newsgroups, too. Bit 29

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