[Air-L] physical/digital worlds

[Baker, Andrea]

Hi, everyone,

Thanks so much for all your help, from those of you commenting both here in the list and off of it.

Yes, Barry, it was Nathan Jurgenson's work that first inspired me to carry on with my current project, sorry I didn't mention knowing about it.  I also consulted with him initially, well before posting my inquiry.   Nathan and PJ Rey are running their third Theorizing the Web conference, this year in NYC.

Of course, much work has dealt with the issue some, including mine on relationships, identities and communities, and thanks for your own important list of contributions, your references.  Thankfully there is now such a wealth of writing and research available.  However, some of us think we still have a way to go in, to use your words, "flesh"-ing out dimensions of the processes.  There's really still much more to say about it at this time, imo.  Most these days seem to not only accept that online/mobile/cmc interaction is real but that it is less discrete from other activities than many of us early internet researchers and private citizens had originally conceived, and experienced back then.

Anyone else who has specific references, please feel free to continue sending them to me and/or posting them.

Here are my original questions previously posted to the aoirlist.  I'm hoping the formatting is better this time:
"For a piece I'm preparing on interaction back and forth between online and offline or from digital to physical worlds and back, I'm looking for references about how that works for people, especially those who are members of online communities.

More than particular data to show this communication in process, although that is good too, I want to conceptualize themovement, the "flow" from one realm to another, to describe what is happening.  Also, how does the online communication, including that through mobile phones, affect the offline interaction, and how do the offline encounters affect what goes on inside the online communities and in other social media containing some of the same people interacting offline. This project is part of my music fan research on fan communities, identities, and relationships.
I'm already aware of the articles in the first issue of Mobile Media and Communication (January, 2013), and of Lauren Sessions-Goulet's excellent paper of a few years back on offline meetings and online communities, and have a few other helpful sources.  I've done a body of work on romantic online relationships so I understand many of the dynamics there.

Please feel free to write off list or on.  Thanks so much in advance!
cheers,
andee (andrea baker)"

thanks!  --a