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

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

Obviously, there will be certain differences between individual communities, but general tendencies such as the emergence of central figures, the acquisition of uncontested places as bases for the community, and thus the move from tactics to strategies and from mostly oral information tradition to the fixing of community knowledge, norms and ideologies in FAQs and Web sites, are likely to occur in a similar fashion. Eventually, these processes will also profoundly affect the new global society as such -- this is already apparent in the loss of a mainstream, but will become more pronounced as their new cyberspatial bases allow minority communities to form alliances to limit the hegemonial power of media industries.	Bit 22
In summary of the issues presented in this paper, then, it might finally be necessary to amend widespread ideas of Internet community. McLuhan's much-quoted concept of a global village seems to suggest the uniformity of a closely-knit small-scale community blown up to a larger size, and thus assumes a global homogenisation of culture which, as we have seen, is unlikely to occur. Rather, the strong segmentation of culture globally and within individual regions, and the diminishing importance of geographical factors on the boundaries of these 'virtually local' subcultures suggests the image of a global metropolis.	Bit 23

Obviously, there will be certain differences between individual communities, but general tendencies such as the emergence of central figures, the acquisition of uncontested places as bases for the community, and thus the move from tactics to strategies and from mostly oral information tradition to the fixing of community knowledge, norms and ideologies in FAQs and Web sites, are likely to occur in a similar fashion. Eventually, these processes will also profoundly affect the new global society as such -- this is already apparent in the loss of a mainstream, but will become more pronounced as their new cyberspatial bases allow minority communities to form alliances to limit the hegemonial power of media industries.

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In summary of the issues presented in this paper, then, it might finally be necessary to amend widespread ideas of Internet community. McLuhan's much-quoted concept of a global village seems to suggest the uniformity of a closely-knit small-scale community blown up to a larger size, and thus assumes a global homogenisation of culture which, as we have seen, is unlikely to occur. Rather, the strong segmentation of culture globally and within individual regions, and the diminishing importance of geographical factors on the boundaries of these 'virtually local' subcultures suggests the image of a global metropolis.

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