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Face-to-Face v. Wired:
community life @Meadowmont and
Meadowmont.org
± concepts
community: cooperative group of people existing in the face of a competitive
world because that group of people recognizes that there is something valuable
that they can gain only by banding together (Marc Smith); it also is a continuous
process of evolution (Fernback, 1999) and not a fixed entity
capital: investment of resources with expected returns in the marketplace
(Nan Lin)
social capital: investment in social relations with expected returns in
the marketplace hopefully yielding an asset by virtue of actors' connections
and access to resources in the network or group of which they are members; key
here is the notion of embedded resources that can be mobilized (Nan Lin, p.
24))
knowledge capital: "online brain trust representing a highly varied
accumulation of expertise" (Rheingold)
communion: support, fellowship (Marc Smith)
"You aren't a real community until you have a funeral." --
John Perry Barlow
New Urbanism: a physical design construct with social goals, including
the promotion of equitable access to public goods and services through community
compactness, mix of housing, and transportation improvement (Talen,
2002). New Urbanism centers on three social goals: community, social equity,
and the common good.
| Ray Oldenburg, The
Great Good Place, wrote of three essential places in people's lives: **the place we live **the place we work **the place we gather for conviviality Although the casual conversation that takes place in cafes, beauty shops, pubs, and town squares is universally considered to be trivial, idle talk, Oldenburg makes the case that such places are where communities can come into being and continue to hold together. |
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