Comments on: Networks – CCK08 http://gminks.edublogs.org/2008/09/26/networks-cck08/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: gminks http://gminks.edublogs.org/2008/09/26/networks-cck08/comment-page-1/#comment-109 gminks Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:59:05 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=88#comment-109 I think that is what I'm saying - the network is the connections (being associated) but communities are something more intense as you put it. Loved the Cthulu quote on your blog -- too true huh. I think that is what I’m saying – the network is the connections (being associated) but communities are something more intense as you put it.

Loved the Cthulu quote on your blog — too true huh.

]]> By: Ed Webb http://gminks.edublogs.org/2008/09/26/networks-cck08/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Ed Webb Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:33:34 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=88#comment-108 Is the network infrastructure and the community superstructure? That would be a material/ideal dichotomy, with the network being the technology and the pathways, the community being the people and the content. If we are conceiving of both community and network as being made of people (like Soylent Green), then perhaps the network is the larger collectivity, and communities emerge within it through more intense interactions among subsets of the people who make up the network. Is the network infrastructure and the community superstructure? That would be a material/ideal dichotomy, with the network being the technology and the pathways, the community being the people and the content.

If we are conceiving of both community and network as being made of people (like Soylent Green), then perhaps the network is the larger collectivity, and communities emerge within it through more intense interactions among subsets of the people who make up the network.

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