Interesting link

[oyceter]

Here is a fascinating bit on group dynamics online, highly fandom relevant and relevant to blogs and LJ and the like.

ETA: Very interesting section on reputation and handles and the need for non-polynymity that reminded me of recent situations on AtPO.

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Interesting . . .

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I just skimmed it the first two sections but got caught up in the end (yes, the importance of "handles") and will have to go back. I know that I will be referring to it in the future!

Re: Interesting . . .

[oyceter]

I thought it was a very different look at fandoms, internet cultures and group dynamics that I hadn't really thought about before. Now tearing through all the essays this person wrote and finding his philosophy very close to mine.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I've got this downloaded for reading in hardcopy but I haven't looked at it in a while and the surfing I did was more related to the psychology of the incestuous relationship between crackers or virus coders and the online security community, so I followed this back a little bit. Came across this: http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/ which is more straight psych oriented. Recently, my reading has been with a more jungian slant, so I'll be interested to follow it further. Thanks for posting the link. Already the concept of social interaction vs individualism is ringing a bell.

[oyceter]

Thanks for the bookmark! Looks interesting, will probably start going through it once I read everything on www.shirky.com, heh. I found Shirky's ideas about the internet match my ideal of the internet pretty closely...

Very intriguing

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Makes a great deal of sense, and I hope this gets widely circulated.

Re: Very intriguing

[oyceter]

Ditto.. seems like it'd be relevant most people participating in or running an online group.