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

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

For a review of the Progressive Rock online community, then, it is also necessary to briefly examine the use made by that community of the opportunites offered by the World Wide Web (addresses can be found in Appendix B.2). Importantly, in the same way that written information has been privileged over its oral counterpart, the subcultural knowledge presented on Prog-related Web sites has often gained greater authority by being fixed in this way. One example for this process is the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock (GEPR), a large database of articles describing lesser known bands, created from individual mailing-list and newsgroup participants' commentaries: while on their own such statements might have been regarded merely as personal views, collected into a compendium of Prog bands they are far more influential.	Bit 69
At the same time, however, an institution like the GEPR also indicates the differences of this new Net-based oral/literary distinction from traditional ones: the creation of apparently authoritative sources on the Web is much easier than it is in print, and so, while "the Web can shatter institutional control over knowledge (which relies on geographic proximity of members, and boundaries on knowledge dissemination) and give control to individuals and ad hoc, online groups" (December, "Challenges", n. pag.), it also limits the perceived authority of the information these groups publish.²⁸	Bit 70

For a review of the Progressive Rock online community, then, it is also necessary to briefly examine the use made by that community of the opportunites offered by the World Wide Web (addresses can be found in Appendix B.2). Importantly, in the same way that written information has been privileged over its oral counterpart, the subcultural knowledge presented on Prog-related Web sites has often gained greater authority by being fixed in this way. One example for this process is the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock (GEPR), a large database of articles describing lesser known bands, created from individual mailing-list and newsgroup participants' commentaries: while on their own such statements might have been regarded merely as personal views, collected into a compendium of Prog bands they are far more influential.

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At the same time, however, an institution like the GEPR also indicates the differences of this new Net-based oral/literary distinction from traditional ones: the creation of apparently authoritative sources on the Web is much easier than it is in print, and so, while "the Web can shatter institutional control over knowledge (which relies on geographic proximity of members, and boundaries on knowledge dissemination) and give control to individuals and ad hoc, online groups" (December, "Challenges", n. pag.), it also limits the perceived authority of the information these groups publish.²⁸

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