"Every Home Is Wired": 1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures

"Every Home Is Wired":
1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures

With the benefit of hindsight, it appears that many of the flaws in CMC that early research found were due to the fact that this research was conducted early on, and thus had to rely on research informants who lacked experience with the medium (or, computers in general), were unaware of the informally agreed-upon 'house rules' of the Net (the netiquette), and unfamiliar with their co-participants (who likely struggled similarly).⁹ Just as it happens offline, continued interaction online breeds familiarity, as users begin to get used to others' idiosyncracies. Thus, "virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace" (Rheingold 5).¹⁰	Bit 37
Additionally, the disruptions caused by that apparent lack of cues may generally be overstated, as Döring notes: "although the phenomenon of flaming cannot be denied, its spread is probably being overestimated, for example because flaming is consistent with the popular cliché that the Net is ruled by 'anarchy'. Spectacular 'flame wars' are thus spoken about more than factually interesting and well-founded discussions" ("Isolation", n. pag.).	Bit 38

With the benefit of hindsight, it appears that many of the flaws in CMC that early research found were due to the fact that this research was conducted early on, and thus had to rely on research informants who lacked experience with the medium (or, computers in general), were unaware of the informally agreed-upon 'house rules' of the Net (the netiquette), and unfamiliar with their co-participants (who likely struggled similarly).⁹ Just as it happens offline, continued interaction online breeds familiarity, as users begin to get used to others' idiosyncracies. Thus, "virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace" (Rheingold 5).¹⁰

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Additionally, the disruptions caused by that apparent lack of cues may generally be overstated, as Döring notes: "although the phenomenon of flaming cannot be denied, its spread is probably being overestimated, for example because flaming is consistent with the popular cliché that the Net is ruled by 'anarchy'. Spectacular 'flame wars' are thus spoken about more than factually interesting and well-founded discussions" ("Isolation", n. pag.).

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