1. Will the number of people working from home steadily increase?
2. What attracted people who worked for themselves to virtual communities, such as the WELL, in the early days of the internet?
3. "Rheingold uses CMC in Japan and France as examples of the fact that the global development of the Net is not uniform and does not automatically result in Internet." What is Lovink referring to here? I tried searching "CMC" with many different results.
#2 - At the time when the WELL was founded, I imagine the main propagation meme for such a 'situation' was word-of-mouth! Perhaps local 'zines as well as physical bulletin boards. Certainly there was no 'mainstream' media coverage of such things, so that the propagation means were quite limited. That being said, there were more robust and frequent f2f meetings among people who participated in a local community than there ever are these days...
ReplyDelete#3 - Computer Mediated Communications -- the paradigms, in the early days, were quite different and even now, the way people in different social systems use communications technologies is quite different: the 'American Way' is not the only way!