Open AccessIdentity in a virtual community: The case of forum "The Sign of Sagita"
Author(s) -
Ivan Djordjević
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
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