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

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

Along with the users, the medium also changes: a generally accepted netiquette, unwritten at first, develops, along with emoticons and other codes. As Silverstone notes, technologies "become familiar, but they also develop and change. ... It is also worth noting ... that in the dynamics of domestication ... it is not only the technologies which shift, for cultivation also affects the cultivator and his or her culture" (64), and this last move, to a change of culture as such in this ongoing process, is finally perhaps the most important. Thus, "CMC technologies transform thought and culture by engendering the creation of communities in which the participants, much like the participants in primarily oral cultures, can participate in emotional, expressive, and involving communication" (December, "Characteristics", n. pag., section 1.3). The Net itself may then also repeat the move from such 'primarily oral' to literary culture: in Internet communities, there is a tendency to fix community knowledge in frequently asked question (FAQ) lists and dedicated Web sites.	Bit 46
In summary, "computer-mediated communication is ... socially produced space", as Jones writes (17). He continues that "the space of cyberspace is predicated on knowledge and information, on the common beliefs and practices of a society abstracted from physical space. ... The important element in cyberspatial social relations is the sharing of information" (19), a logical outcome, it seems, of Net interactions' strong basis in language.¹²	Bit 47

Along with the users, the medium also changes: a generally accepted netiquette, unwritten at first, develops, along with emoticons and other codes. As Silverstone notes, technologies "become familiar, but they also develop and change. ... It is also worth noting ... that in the dynamics of domestication ... it is not only the technologies which shift, for cultivation also affects the cultivator and his or her culture" (64), and this last move, to a change of culture as such in this ongoing process, is finally perhaps the most important. Thus, "CMC technologies transform thought and culture by engendering the creation of communities in which the participants, much like the participants in primarily oral cultures, can participate in emotional, expressive, and involving communication" (December, "Characteristics", n. pag., section 1.3). The Net itself may then also repeat the move from such 'primarily oral' to literary culture: in Internet communities, there is a tendency to fix community knowledge in frequently asked question (FAQ) lists and dedicated Web sites.

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In summary, "computer-mediated communication is ... socially produced space", as Jones writes (17). He continues that "the space of cyberspace is predicated on knowledge and information, on the common beliefs and practices of a society abstracted from physical space. ... The important element in cyberspatial social relations is the sharing of information" (19), a logical outcome, it seems, of Net interactions' strong basis in language.¹²

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