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On-line and off-line personae in the virtual communities.
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ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE PERSONAE IN THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Roman Tol Introduction New Media TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Pg. 3 Virtual Community Pg. 3 On-line and Off-line Personae Pg. 4 Conclusion Pg. 5 Refrerences Pg. 7 INTRODUCTION Computer-mediated communication systems exhibit a fair amount of interpretative flexibility. That is, they can mean different things to different individuals or different groups, and their use continues to be interpreted and reinterpreted with the passing of time.1 It is well known that the Internet was originally conceived as a military project supervised by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, created during the Cold War as an information system capable of surviving a Soviet nuclear attack.2 Those same features of decentralization and flexibility that should make it militarily invulnerable contributed to giving us the Internet of today: an international, chaotic, dense bazaar inhabited by all kinds of people. This paper is intended to discuss the relationships in social worlds built by people on computer networks. Virtual communities has lately...
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