Source: Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Quotes
Thus, the rhetoric of community provided the ideological cover necessary to transform a potentially stark and single-minded market transaction into a complex, multidimensional act To the extent that they could describe themselves as the givers and receives of informational gifts within a community, members of the WELL could simultaneously recognize and ignore the degree to which they were also exchanging financially valuable goods within a newly informational economy
- social media = selling the community you’re part of back to you, the user-product?
- can you assign value to a network? or to the ability/access to the network or letting people connect with others in a network?
Q: how does the Designer, Observer, Participant fit into this community-commodity?
user-product <> elitism
Likewise, corporate clients could begin to think of themselves not only as paying customers of information, but as members of an elite social group. Having recharacterized their relationship to GBN, having seen it as social as well as economic, clients could in turn become producers of value for one another
- selling the community co-creates it as well
- tied to exclusivity
Related Ideas
- Fanfiction? above quote regarding gift economy sounds like AO3, except it’s not an economy and truly just a community
- no economic value to fanfiction (yet?)