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

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

Possibly underneath the overarching structure of the 'global civil society' Frederick envisions, various different 'suburban' communities (similar to those founded in ethnicity, class, or shared ideologies existing in 'real-life' cities) can live in this metropolis -- each, like the online Prog community, with its own individual neighbourhood, consisting of suburban main squares (newsgroups like rec.music.progressive and alt.music.yes) that are surrounded and serviced by electronically interconnected specialist stores and offices (specialty retailers and labels like The Laser's Edge and Cuneiform), suburban newspapers and their offices (mailing-lists and their Web sites), libraries (like the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock), and information boards (FAQs and community Web sites). Also, there are within easy travelling distance other suburbs with their own communal resources, and the central metropolitan business and cultural district, with general services ranging from information (for example in the form of the Yahoo! or CNN sites) to retail (such as CDnow) -- due to the demise of mainstream hegemony, however, such institutions will increasingly occupy a merely serving role, in which they are unable to control cultural trends and developments: overly overt attempts to influence their users will make users turn away from the central services, and back to the resources of their own suburbs. The challenge of the future will be, then, to establish overarching forms of organisation in this metropolis.	Bit 24

Possibly underneath the overarching structure of the 'global civil society' Frederick envisions, various different 'suburban' communities (similar to those founded in ethnicity, class, or shared ideologies existing in 'real-life' cities) can live in this metropolis -- each, like the online Prog community, with its own individual neighbourhood, consisting of suburban main squares (newsgroups like rec.music.progressive and alt.music.yes) that are surrounded and serviced by electronically interconnected specialist stores and offices (specialty retailers and labels like The Laser's Edge and Cuneiform), suburban newspapers and their offices (mailing-lists and their Web sites), libraries (like the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock), and information boards (FAQs and community Web sites). Also, there are within easy travelling distance other suburbs with their own communal resources, and the central metropolitan business and cultural district, with general services ranging from information (for example in the form of the Yahoo! or CNN sites) to retail (such as CDnow) -- due to the demise of mainstream hegemony, however, such institutions will increasingly occupy a merely serving role, in which they are unable to control cultural trends and developments: overly overt attempts to influence their users will make users turn away from the central services, and back to the resources of their own suburbs. The challenge of the future will be, then, to establish overarching forms of organisation in this metropolis.

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