Online communities

Hi everyone,

I'm a third year journalism student and I am trying to do an assignment
for 'Digital Journalism' which requires me to make contact with an
online community.

After searching the Internet for hours, I finally found your group
which appears to be an interesting active online community.

I was hoping some of you would be willing to give me some information
about your online community, why you became involved and are still an
active member? what you get out of reading and posting on the forum?
Whether you think online communities unite or divide? And what you
believe online communities bring to the public arena? or is it just a
place for people to voice their opinion and interests anonymously?

I hope some of you will be able to give me some feedback on what
alt.education means to you.

But I do understand I'm invading your online community, so you can tell
me to go somewhere else.

Thanks for your time

On Tue, 31 May 2005 04:09:54 -0500, Lou Lou wrote

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a third year journalism student and I am trying to do an assignment
> for 'Digital Journalism' which requires me to make contact with an
> online community.
>
> After searching the Internet for hours, I finally found your group
> which appears to be an interesting active online community.
>
> I was hoping some of you would be willing to give me some information
> about your online community, why you became involved and are still an
> active member? what you get out of reading and posting on the forum?
> Whether you think online communities unite or divide? And what you
> believe online communities bring to the public arena? or is it just a
> place for people to voice their opinion and interests anonymously?
>
> I hope some of you will be able to give me some feedback on what
> alt.education means to you.
>
> But I do understand I'm invading your online community, so you can tell
> me to go somewhere else.
>
> Thanks for your time
>

A community - such as "New Purgatory" or "alt.education" -
must have fresh blood to survive.

When someone invites you over for dinner. first ascertain
whether they want to have you for dinner or if they want to
have you for dinner.

Pretty much the only thing that is, pretty much, off limits
here is education although, occasionaly someone does weave
across the line and is given an alcohol test to ensure that
that person is not sober (seriously against the non-rules
of the newsgroup).

alt.education is a "community" in much the same way that
Charles Manson's followers were "family".



Gray Shockley
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Calvin: These are interesting times.
We don't trust the government,
We don't trust the legal system,
We don't trust the media,
and we don't trust each other!
We've undermined all authority,
and with it, the basis for replacing it!

Hobbes: "Interesting" is a mild way of putting it.

Calvin: It's like a six-year-old's dream come true.