Time and space in cyber social reality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12655296
AutoresStine Gotved (University of Copenhagen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas467-486
Fecha de publicación2006-05-18
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444806064484
OpenAlexW1970293432
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas30

This article synthesizes a range of sociological views on time and space, and presents a departure point for future research on cyber social reality. Using basic sociological categories of culture, structure, and interaction, the cyber social reality is drawn into a matrix that further illustrates the embeddedness in technology, time, and space. The matrix is a theoretically and empirically grounded tool for exploring, describing, analyzing, and comparing the variety existing within online communities and communication. In the article, the matrix is illustrated step by step to show its inherent dimensions, and in conclusion it is proposed to be a useful systematic for, on the one hand, ensuring ethnographically thick descriptions of online social life, and on the other, comparing the various reality constructions found

Data science · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Matrix (chemical analysis · Point (geometry · Social reality · Social relation · Social science · Social space · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Mathematics · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence