Comments on: prix ars electronica

By: Joho the Blog

Joho the Blog — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:42:37 +0000

danah judging community

danah blogs enthusiastically about her time in Austria being a judge for Prix Ars Electronica. Apparently, the discussion of what constitutes a community was vibrant and informed by a sense of the differences in the world. A snipppet: We had a long con…

By: Joi Ito's Web

Joi Ito's Web — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:58:56 +0000

Visiting the IHT

I just visited my friend Tom Crampton, a reporter for the International Herald Tribute who just moved to Paris. Today was his first day in the Paris office. He showed me the computer system that gave him access to all…

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:57:30 +0000

I’ve taken a look at the definition proposed for a digital community, and it looks like it sets the bar higher for recognition of a digital community than would be the case for a face to face/non-digital community – in the insistence that it go beyond social relations to require some sort of purpose.

I think I’m a member of two digital communities – one is a webforum devoted to New Zealand music (NZMusic.com) and the other is one focussed on travel (thorntree.lonelyplanet.com). Digital technology is vital in both in breaking down several barriers – age and geography in particular – and allowing us to participate in conversations on a topic of common interest. There is the same sort of pecking order that you’d have in more traditional communities, the one major difference being the higher turnover of personailities.

These seem to me as just as much a community as, for example, exists here on my campus.