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Well I have chosen my community and sent off an email to check that the administrator of the website would not mind be included in my research. I thought about taking what was traditionally a small rural/community activity and seeing how it translated into the digital age. The virtual community I have [...] I’m quite drawn to Cassetteboy’s YouTube remix of Nick Griffin. Both Nick Griffin and Cassetteboy were ‘trending topics’ today (23nd October 2009). I like the speed of production – caught from television, remixed and uploaded to YouTube within hours, entering the twittersphere and going viral, becoming part of watercooler discussions – physical and virtual – all [...] This week, I have mainly been reading and thinking about virtual ethnographic field sites and communities. It’s got me trying to define ‘community’. At the end of this post is an extract from a book by Clay Shirky. I like his robust defence of bloggers against those who denigrate them (yes, I’m talking ’bout you Brabazon!). [...] A year or so back I did the language and culture module with Ruby and we looked at the notion of ‘discourse community’. 1. Discourse community According to John Swales (1987: 5-7) there are six defining characteristics of a discourse community: a broadly agreed set of common public goals. |
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