New and unrecognizable modes of community are in the process of formation, and it is difficult to discern exactly how these will contribute to or detract from postmodern politics.
Predictor: Poster, Mark
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 e-mail interview with Eric Heroux, Mark Poster, a member of the humanities faculty at the University of California at Irvine and author of “The Second Media Age,” speaks about communication via the Web: ”Electronically mediated communication to some degree supplements existing forms of sociability but to another extent substitutes for them. New and unrecognizable modes of community are in the process of formation, and it is difficult to discern exactly how these will contribute to or detract from postmodern politics. The image of the people in the streets, from the Bastille in 1789, to the Sorbonne in 1968 and Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989 may be the images that will not be repeated in the forms of upheaval of the 21st century and beyond.”
Biography:Mark Poster wrote the paper “Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere” in 1995 while teaching at the University of California, Irvine. He also wrote about technology for Wired magazine. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Virtual Communities
Name of publication: University of Oregon Web site
Title, headline, chapter name: Interview With Mark Poster: Community, New Media; Post-humanism
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~ucurrent/2-Poster.html
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