"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

The very fact that online communities are intentional communities, to use Marc Smith's description (more so even than offline fan groups, whose membership patterns are still partly influenced by geographical factors), may also avoid strong disagreement. Also, just as in offline communities, longer-term users of Prog newsgroups will eventually find ways of dealing with differing opinions, and will recognise and accept individual posters' diverging preferences (though not agree with them), while committed to the notion of an overarching Prog community; the rise of user 'factions' in the newsgroups seems a natural result of this.²²	Bit 44
In spite of all the reference to disruptions and disagreements, there are also indications that such disturbances are generally regarded as overly negative without sufficient justification. It has already been shown that even highly disruptive events can have positive implications for a community reacting to them in a consensual fashion; additionally, Döring points out, the amount of actual disruptions occurring may also be overstated: "in reading news, flames often immediately catch the eye (heuristics of availability: in guessing the likelihood of events we overestimate events which are well 'available' in memory due to their conspicuousness, repetition, etc.) and furthermore induce negative emotions (negativity bias: more attention is given to negatively valued events than positive ones)" ("Isolation", n. pag.).	Bit 45

The very fact that online communities are intentional communities, to use Marc Smith's description (more so even than offline fan groups, whose membership patterns are still partly influenced by geographical factors), may also avoid strong disagreement. Also, just as in offline communities, longer-term users of Prog newsgroups will eventually find ways of dealing with differing opinions, and will recognise and accept individual posters' diverging preferences (though not agree with them), while committed to the notion of an overarching Prog community; the rise of user 'factions' in the newsgroups seems a natural result of this.²²

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In spite of all the reference to disruptions and disagreements, there are also indications that such disturbances are generally regarded as overly negative without sufficient justification. It has already been shown that even highly disruptive events can have positive implications for a community reacting to them in a consensual fashion; additionally, Döring points out, the amount of actual disruptions occurring may also be overstated: "in reading news, flames often immediately catch the eye (heuristics of availability: in guessing the likelihood of events we overestimate events which are well 'available' in memory due to their conspicuousness, repetition, etc.) and furthermore induce negative emotions (negativity bias: more attention is given to negatively valued events than positive ones)" ("Isolation", n. pag.).

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