Sunday, July 31, 2005

Completed chapter 8 in David Bell's cyberculture book.

Chapter 8 in David Bell's book looks at subcultures. He divides for analysis sake the subcultures into subcultures using cyberspace and subcultures about cyberspace. The former include fan culture, and conspiracy culture and the neo-right. The later include MUDers, cyberpunks, hackers and neoluddites. These are just examples for all that are possible with much overlap and combinations possible. This is all interesting and something to think about especially when he ends suggesting we priorise our time spent on line so that we don't risk drowning in the data stream. This immense size of the Internet and time spent on-line are concerns of mine.

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