Internet: audience, social network and community

1. Let's try to complete the topic “social networks and the Internet”, at least
some intermediate result.
Initially, our task was to define a web service intended
to create, maintain and develop a social network. I wanted to create
theoretical model of a special entity in the Internet - “soc. network on-line. To view different
applications of its use for example in
social search or in
collective
work .
As a result, those who responded to my definition,
expressed many of their formulations and descriptions of properties
social network. And all were convincing from their grounds. But this
the multiplicity only hid the subject of the study, rather than highlighted it.
Tim Berners-Lee
about the Internet : “The Web will be so widely used that it can
serve as a credible mirror of how we work, play and communicate (socialize) "

Insofar as
"Soc. network on-line "there is
reflection of the real social network and is secondary to it, then
unsatisfactory attempts to define through the description of the properties of existing
already available sites with the need
leads us to consider the social network as real interactions of people in
society.

2. At the time of dialectical materialism widespread
had the definition of a person, given by Aristotle not in "Metaphysics":
"Man is a public animal." Yes, we are all human, we are all human, and
Therefore, we strive to unite with our own kind and separate from others. it
it is true, as it is true that it happens in a different way.
As a subject of study, a “social network” is being developed in
sociology. We will not go into the subtleties of disputes sociologists, they themselves admit
what not
came to a consensus, but let's take everything in common: a social network is one
of the types of relationships of people with each other, called some
researchers coordination.
This type of relationship
differs from: 1) unrelated set where there are no relations, and
2) a hierarchical organization where control exists. The network is not a group of unrelated people, but
unlike hierarchical relations in a network there are no heads and subordinates, a network
rests on personal desire, not on formal necessity and official
responsibilities.
It is worth noting as a certain multitude of people who are not
the researcher himself identifies on some common basis (for example, drawing up
outwardly marketers generalized portrait of the target audience). Man is the only thing
an animal that has an earlobe, but people are not humanity precisely because of this
sign. And from this fact it does not follow that everyone will buy earrings for themselves.
Patarakin Evgeny Dmitrievich
: “People do not become a community because they look the same
series ... For example, partners play at the table in
cards, and the rest can discuss this game, but they can not at all
influence. Community of Practice ... denotes public education,
whose members are involved in joint activities and communication is
necessary condition for their cooperation. "
In addition to these non-network forms of existence of a group of people, we find some forms
very similar to a social network: 1) an audience and 2) a community . In the first
In this case, people are united by a common subject of their attention, but not among themselves. In the second -
the group not only enters into communication, discusses something, but also acts, i.e.
the object of attention in this case becomes the subject of a collective application of forces.
Interpersonal event in addition to communication in the community becomes - real
joint activities in a common subject area. But communication must
be otherwise when it is, but there is no communication - this is an organization where
there is an order and execution.
With the audience and the community, the social network has common features, but to
it is necessary to distinguish it as an independent entity. Such an essential feature of a social network is communication . His (trait)
presence distinguishes the network from the audience, and the exhaustiveness of the relationship to them
distinguishes the network from the community where communication enters as needed but not
sufficient sign.
Here we come to the main thesis of the article: social network -
it is an unstable form of existence of a group of people between the audience and
by the community .
The Internet, networked by nature, has become a must and
nutrient medium for the entire network: from wires to consciousnesses. Evolution
The Internet as a cultural universal phenomenon is as follows:
Internet audience (the Internet itself as an object of attention) joining the network
interaction with each other (the Internet as a means of communication), finds
a real common subject for the application of collective forces, forming
real-virtual community (the Internet as a study). And technology only
drawn up to the pressing needs of consciousness, as can be used
and for other purposes.
The term “social network” should be distinguished from another - “network community”: in
The first connection is the goal, for the second - a means. Social network can become
network community, and may not be.
Three phenomena: audience, social network and community correspond to three
such as sites: library, community and office. About this next time.
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