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Title: The Censorship Group


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The Censorship Group
Thomas
Phil
Luca
Mike
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Dreds Bar
  • Online community location where people can
    converse.
  • Creates a sense of belonging where people know
    your name.
  • A virtual watering hole where virtual drinks are
    served.

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Cheers
  • A physical community location where people can
    converse.
  • Creates a sense of belonging where people know
    your name.
  • A real watering hole where real drinks are served.

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Is It Real?
  • Virtually, Dreds bar is real. It is a virtual
    spot to meet on the web to converse with live
    people. However, it is obvious that the drinks
    are not, but do people go to bars to drink alone?
    Cheers is a place to converse as is Dreds bar.
    The drinks are not real, nor is the character
    base, but no matter where you go in real life,
    you can create your own persona and say you did
    things you didnt.

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Turkles Argument
  • THE LOSS OF THE REAL.
  • Denatured and artificial experiences seem real.
  • It makes the fake seem more compelling than the
    real.
  • Virtual experience may be so compelling
  • That we believe that we have achieved more than
    we have.
  • (Source TAP Vol 7, Issue 24)

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Galstonvoluntary community
  • Aruges that it is a voluntary community.
  • (1) Entry by choice
  • (2) Barriers to exit are low
  • (3) Intracommunity relations shaped through
    mutual adjustment rather than authority or
    coercion.
  • Source Civic Webpage, p.37)

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Galston continued
  • Factors can hurt society through social and
    political issues.
  • Communities only socialize with people that have
    similar ideas. Therefore many ideas are
    overlooked and the influence of other ideas are
    not extensive. Argues that we must assert public
    problems on the websites.
  • Voluntary communities only support single
    interest groups which cause many of the problems
    we face today.

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Barlows views
  • Argues that virtual communities are real
    communities for the following reasons
  • (1) States that todays TV and suburban
    population patterns create communities that are
    not real at all.
  • (2) Virtual communities hold in them culture,
    religion, shared diversity, and a sense of
    necessity.

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Barlows viewscontinued
  • (3) In the virtual communities, there are
    gossiping, comforting, harassing, complaining,
    love, bartering, and many other aspects involved
    in physical communities.
  • (4) Just like physical communities, virtual
    communities are places where people can randomly
    meet their friends and keep their heart as
    corporate America shifts people across the
    Nation.

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Barlows final argument
  • Virtual communities are better than physical ones
    because they contain diversity which is essential
    to a healthy community and provide elements that
    physical communities cannot.

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Rheingolds argument
  • Virtual communities are a place where one might
    chat, argue, engage in intellectual intercourse,
    make plans, fall in love, play games, and find
    friends.
  • He states that virtual communities came out due
    to the necessity of people needing a better sense
    of community that physical communities werent
    supplying.

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Rheingold continued
  • The only thing missing from virtual communities
    are sight and touch but with society today, one
    is just as likely to be deceived by a person
    standing by them as they are from a person in a
    virtual community.

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Rheingolds final argument
  • The feeling one gets when entering a virtual
    community is the same as entering the WELL.
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