"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net
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Major Prog Web sites like The Progressive Rock Web Site, the German Prog-Team Saarbrücken home page, or that of the Göteborg Artrock Society in Sweden are thus positioned both at the heart of subcultural knowledge and as resources guiding potential newcomers in their entrance into the community. In the latter function, they may especially help to overcome or avoid the problems experienced by new newsgroup participants: newcomers can first use the Web to familiarise themselves with the subcultural community, and then join its discussion fora.30 Bit 75
The Progressive Rock Community on the Net
Ultimately, then, newsgroups and the Web complement one another, as communication (or interaction) and as information spaces, respectively, in December's terminology ("Transitions", n. pag.).31 In the end, however, Negroponte claims, "the true value of a network is less about information and more about community. The information superhighway is more than a short cut to every book in the Library of Congress. It is creating a totally new, global social fabric" (183); for the creation and consolidation of one patch of that fabric, the Progressive Rock community, then, newsgroups are set to remain the most valuable resource (with significant support from other elements like the Web). Bit 76

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