Dr Gordon Fletcher G.Fletcher@salford.ac.uk
Associate Dean: Research and Innovation
The social construction of electronic space
Fletcher, G; Greenhill, A
Authors
A Greenhill
Abstract
Computer‐mediated communication is a phenomenon of post‐industrial society. As a consequence of the interactivity and persistent textual nature of this form of communication, new spaces of sociality are constructed which can be analysed and interpreted with the epistemologies and methodologies utilised in understanding more conventional places. This approach reveals that electronic spaces are constructions firmly tied to the cultural and social experiences of ‘real‐world’ existences. Electronic identities, then, are built from this wide base of experience and ‘real‐world’ identity rather than, as is sometimes claimed, begun afresh. These connections to understood material culture and the prevalence of the typed word in electronic spaces permits a digital archaeology, inspired by material culture studies, which is both revealing of the users of these spaces as well as the wider social constructions of post‐industrial society.
Citation
Fletcher, G., & Greenhill, A. (1996). The social construction of electronic space. Social Semiotics, 6(2), 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350339609384472
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 1996 |
Deposit Date | Feb 10, 2015 |
Journal | Social Semiotics |
Print ISSN | 1035-0330 |
Electronic ISSN | 1470-1219 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 179-198 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/10350339609384472 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/10350339609384472#tabModule |
Related Public URLs | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10350330.asp |
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