"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

This fits well with the Prog community's patterns of strategic and tactical activities: its tactical interactions are with mainstream culture and business, its strategic actions within its own societal niche. A further factor is also that mainstream space is highly limited, and thus hotly contested, whereas (due to media like the Internet) subcultural spaces are more easily available. It may be here that the fundamental nature of cyberspace is making its impact felt most strongly: while community access to mainstream media space is severely restricted, due especially to the limited bandwidth of the airwave-distributed media of radio and TV, cyberspace is virtually infinite, allowing anyone to stake their claim to space (through the establishment of newsgroups and Web sites) without infringing on the rights and abilities of others to do likewise.³ Thus, any subcultural community can establish a place proper, mark out its boundaries in cyberspace, act strategically within those boundaries, and finally become institutionalised. Ultimately, for his strategies/tactics distinction to be permanently maintained, then, de Certeau depends on the existence only of finite amounts of available space that are already controlled by strategic institutions -- conditions not met by the Net.	Bit 11

This fits well with the Prog community's patterns of strategic and tactical activities: its tactical interactions are with mainstream culture and business, its strategic actions within its own societal niche. A further factor is also that mainstream space is highly limited, and thus hotly contested, whereas (due to media like the Internet) subcultural spaces are more easily available. It may be here that the fundamental nature of cyberspace is making its impact felt most strongly: while community access to mainstream media space is severely restricted, due especially to the limited bandwidth of the airwave-distributed media of radio and TV, cyberspace is virtually infinite, allowing anyone to stake their claim to space (through the establishment of newsgroups and Web sites) without infringing on the rights and abilities of others to do likewise.³ Thus, any subcultural community can establish a place proper, mark out its boundaries in cyberspace, act strategically within those boundaries, and finally become institutionalised. Ultimately, for his strategies/tactics distinction to be permanently maintained, then, de Certeau depends on the existence only of finite amounts of available space that are already controlled by strategic institutions -- conditions not met by the Net.

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