[Air-l] The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community

[Vassilys Fourkas]

It may be interesting regarding the theoretical debate on the spatial
conception of cyberspace:
http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/teknosphera/cyberspace/cyberspace.htm

regards

Vas

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From: "Quentin Jones" <GadjonesQ at netscape.net>
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> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> A CSCW 2002 WORKSHOP
> The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community
> 
> AT A GLANCE
> What: A Workshop on Building Virtual Community Places
> Where: CSCW 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
> When: Saturday, November 16, 2002
> Submission: Position paper and profile by Friday Sept 27th (any 
> questions please contact us we are happy to work with people)
> Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by Monday Oct 14
> Organizers:
> Quentin Jones, New Jersey Institute of Technology, qgjones at acm.org
> Christine Halverson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, krys at us.ibm.com
> 
> The Call for Participation
> The adoption of modern communication technologies increasingly situates 
> interpersonal interactions virtually. This has had an enormous impact on 
> people's social networks as community ties shift from linking people 
> together-in-physical-places to people-to-people-wherever-they-might-be 
> [18]. However, these changes have not lessened the importance of place, 
> be it virtual or physical, in shaping interaction patterns and discourse.
> 
> The term place means different things to different people, and this 
> workshop will examine these differences in relation to virtual 
> community. In particular this workshop aims to explore the myriad of 
> ways that:
> * the design of virtual or hybrid spaces / places directly provides 
> common ground for user interactions; and
> * communities use public interactions in virtual spaces to create shared 
> meaning.
> This exploration will in turn be used to enable an examination of 
> various aspects of virtual community development and maintenance.
>