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

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

This development is one repeated all over the Net, and by Internet and computer culture in general: that culture, too, has emerged from a tactical underground or consumer subculture to now establish institutions of its own; once again this was also aided by the vacuum of strategic control over emerging computer-based consumer and communication technologies, which allowed users to form structures of use and communication of their own -- on the Internet, most prominently the newsgroups and Web sites themselves. Thus, the development of more specific online institutions, which is linked to the users' general gaining of experience in utilising the Net's various communication forms, will eventually also affect the status of some earlier institutions themselves: the readers' unquestioning belief in newsgroup postings will continue to diminish, and the groups will thus continue to lose importance as credible information resources (much like other media, such as television, did before them). As humanity's move from oral to written information exchange is thus played out once again in the move of information from newsgroups to the Web, newsgroups will, however, retain their position as central fora for the exchange of opinions -- it is this practice, of course, on which community formation and maintenance depends.	Bit 13

This development is one repeated all over the Net, and by Internet and computer culture in general: that culture, too, has emerged from a tactical underground or consumer subculture to now establish institutions of its own; once again this was also aided by the vacuum of strategic control over emerging computer-based consumer and communication technologies, which allowed users to form structures of use and communication of their own -- on the Internet, most prominently the newsgroups and Web sites themselves. Thus, the development of more specific online institutions, which is linked to the users' general gaining of experience in utilising the Net's various communication forms, will eventually also affect the status of some earlier institutions themselves: the readers' unquestioning belief in newsgroup postings will continue to diminish, and the groups will thus continue to lose importance as credible information resources (much like other media, such as television, did before them). As humanity's move from oral to written information exchange is thus played out once again in the move of information from newsgroups to the Web, newsgroups will, however, retain their position as central fora for the exchange of opinions -- it is this practice, of course, on which community formation and maintenance depends.

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