Distance No Object

Material-semiotic assemblages of sociotechnical relations embedded and performed by shifting connections and interactions among a variety of organic, technical, natural and textual materials

But the constructed revolutionary subject must give late-twentieth century pause as well. In the fraying of identities and in the reflexive strategies for constructing them, the possibilities open up for weaving something other than a shroud for the day after the apocalypse that so prophetically ends salvation history.

Some online communities may be too task-orientated (and therefore not 'social' enough) or might not stimulate sufficient interaction to develop 'group-specific'meanings, or they might be too divided and divisive to coalesce'

When information and communication technology is cast into the world, and moist life breathed into its brittle, dry circuitry, it turns out that it is used to manifest culture and build community.

The ethnographer is not simply a voyeur or a disengaged observer, but is also to some extent a participant,sharing some of the concerns, emotions and commitments of the research subjects (C. Hine, 2000, p47)

The Web has become the definitive new media of late or post-modern culture:a largely disorganised and perpetually reflexive culture of information flows and unruly objects.

"As everything becomes aesthetic, the debasement of value that typifies modernity proceeds apace, as does the ubiquity of the spectacle that typifies the postmodern age."