[Air-L] What is web culture?

[Pam Brewer]

This thread is very interesting to me as I am writing my dissertation 
looking at challenges in international virtual workplaces.  My focus is 
on the back and forth communication of the workplace.  Much of the 
discussion here dichotomizes the concept of web culture: there is one 
culture or there are two cultures.  I have collected most of my data at 
this point and am just beginning to analyze it, but it seems to me that 
online culture and f2f culture are both strikingly similar and 
strikingly different.  That statement may sound too broad to be useful, 
but I think it conveys significant truth.  Online communication modes 
shape and are shaped by culture.

I would like to refer to this thread in my analysis as you all have made 
some excellent points.  May I ask your permission to do so?

Best Regards,
Pam

Pamela Estes Brewer
Lecturer
Department of English
Appalachian State University
PhD Candidate, Texas Tech University
phone 828-262-2351
fax  828-262-2133
email  brewerpe at appstate.edu



Christian Nelson wrote:
> I haven't been following this thread, but saw this short note and it  
> struck a chord. Particularly the statement that our modes of  
> interaction "shape" the resultant culture. First question: Do all  
> interactions result in a culture (or the alteration of one)? Second:  
> Do communication modes "shape" interaction or set boundaries for them  
> based on (participants perceptions of) what they afford (in Gibson's  
> sense)? Third, assuming that communication modes set boundaries  
> rather than shape interaction, do differences in boundaries  
> necessarily (or ever) result in differences in culture?
>
> --Christian Nelson
>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Marj Kibby wrote:
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>> If there were people who regularly interacted in your toolshed they
>> would develop a 'toolshed' culture - a set of practices, beliefs and
>> understandings shaped by their mode of interaction.
>>
>> Marj
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>>
>> Dr Marjorie Kibby,
>> Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture
>> Faculty of Education and Arts
>> The University of Newcastle,  Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
>> Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au
>> +61 2 49216604
>>     
>>>>> Mary-Helen Ward <mhward at usyd.edu.au> 01/18/08 6:51 PM >>>
>>>>>           
>> If I had a toolshed it wouldn't have any people interacting in it ...
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