FOGcon!

[starlady]

So I am moderating a panel on Saturday March 12 from 13:30 - 14:45 at FOGcon, My City Goes to 1011:

Can an online community be considered a city? Why or why not? If so, how
does one define the community boundaries? If not, what are the
differences?

Who else is going to FOGcon? Also, oyceter is organizing a POC meetup at the con.

See you at the con, I hope!

I need a San Francisco icon, methinks.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

w00t!

Sounds like an interesting panel. I just read something that made me go "huh!" and shiver with new knowledge, which might be relevant to the panel. There's been a vicious blogswarm re: rape culture in gaming. One of the principal participants, a woman who psueds as kirbybits at WordPress and Twitter and Courtney Stanton in RL. Yesterday's info-rich entry Troll! Data! Analysis! crunches some intriguing numbers about the different communication styles of trolls and actual debaters.

I look forward to meeting you at the con!

[wintercreek]

I'll be there! Not that I need to tell you that. *g*

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've thought of this already, but in my mind, a city/polis/whatever is defined not by its residents, but by its power structure. If the online community has a defined ruling mechanism, a defined enforcing mechanism, and a defined set of rules, then it may be viewed as an equivalent to a physical city.

[...the other question, of course, is that with some obvious exceptions, a city is a subdivision of a country. So, an online community 'city' can only be valid if it is in fact one of a group of similar entities that are united by a common hierarchy. Just to throw out a hypothetical - would you have considered AOL chatrooms 'cities']

[merin-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I wish I could go. The online community/city idea is right up my alley. If you take any discussion notes, I'd be glad to read them. Have fun!