[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[helen varley jamieson]

hi eugenio,
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> I agree. Also, a digital network can provide tools for tracking and visualizing relational dynamics within the community, such as folksonomies, maps and channels that support different modes of communication. However, you seem to imply that physical presence is the most important condition for a community, and that a digital network would only be something like a prosthesis to "alleviate distance". Is this correct?
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no, that isn't what i meant to imply at all. i was speaking specifically 
about those two examples, from colombia & serbia/croatia, where the 
physical getting-together of the two groups was an outcome of the 
creative event.

many - actually, most - of the communities i consider myself a member of 
are not physical communities at all. i value & enjoy face-to-face 
meetings, & sometimes there are things that are more efficiently done in 
the flesh, but most of my networked community interactions are 
virtual/remote & this is perfectly successful.

h : )

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