"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

The geographical distribution of newsgroup participants should also be mentioned here: while for historical reasons Internet demographics are still heavily biased towards U.S.-based users, or at least participants from other English-speaking countries, posts on Prog newsgroups from countries like France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Japan and Korea are not necessarily seen as rarities anymore. (There are also local Prog newsgroups in the countries' own languages.) Even if limited only to posters from the main English-speaking countries, however, these newsgroups and mailing-lists would already prove the claim that they do serve to bring together geographically widely dispersed diaspora communities in unified fora.	Bit 8
The strong involvement of many participants (merely reading such high-volume groups day after day requires a good deal of dedication) will also be due to the nature of the topics, of course: not only is music such a highly emotive subject, but Prog in particular is an especially heterogeneous field, as we have seen, leaving plenty of room for discussion and debate (Yes, with its long and varied history that has seen at least twelve consecutive lineup formations, is no less likely to attract diverging opinions). As Baym notes, "purposes toward which group interactions are oriented ... affect the discourse. ... The task at hand ... influences the extent to which the individuals are involved or invested in what they say in CMC as well as influencing more obvious factors, such as the topics that will be raised" (146).	Bit 9

The geographical distribution of newsgroup participants should also be mentioned here: while for historical reasons Internet demographics are still heavily biased towards U.S.-based users, or at least participants from other English-speaking countries, posts on Prog newsgroups from countries like France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Japan and Korea are not necessarily seen as rarities anymore. (There are also local Prog newsgroups in the countries' own languages.) Even if limited only to posters from the main English-speaking countries, however, these newsgroups and mailing-lists would already prove the claim that they do serve to bring together geographically widely dispersed diaspora communities in unified fora.

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The strong involvement of many participants (merely reading such high-volume groups day after day requires a good deal of dedication) will also be due to the nature of the topics, of course: not only is music such a highly emotive subject, but Prog in particular is an especially heterogeneous field, as we have seen, leaving plenty of room for discussion and debate (Yes, with its long and varied history that has seen at least twelve consecutive lineup formations, is no less likely to attract diverging opinions). As Baym notes, "purposes toward which group interactions are oriented ... affect the discourse. ... The task at hand ... influences the extent to which the individuals are involved or invested in what they say in CMC as well as influencing more obvious factors, such as the topics that will be raised" (146).

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