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Identity in a virtual community: The case of forum "The Sign of Sagita"

Author(s) -

Ivan Djordjević

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

glasnik etnografskog instituta

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8259

pISSN - 0350-0861

DOI - 10.2298/gei0553261d

Subject(s) - fantasy , sign (mathematics) , virtual community , identity (music) , identification (biology) , virtual reality , space (punctuation) , sociology , virtual space , process (computing) , computer science , epistemology , aesthetics , human–computer interaction , world wide web , the internet , artificial intelligence , art , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical analysis , botany , biology , operating system

This paper discusses the operating of one type of virtual community, established by science fiction/fantasy/horror fans, known as "Forum Znak Sagite". The specific access to the phenomena of cyber-space remains in the process of rethinking the phenomena confined neither by the usual oppositions of virtual: real nor by the debates about the ethics of virtual reality. Having taken in consideration the operation of a specific virtual community and the construction of the identification practices inside the community, we approach the issue from a local basis, observing the practice of specific people on the specific ground

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