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    spaces that have the curious property of being in relation with all

    the other sites [of society], but in such a way as to suspect,

    neutralize, or invent the set of relations that they happen to

    designate, mirror, or reflect

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    The internet is a heterotopia lets figure this out

    Precise Determined Functions that can change over time

    beginning: research data, share resources, find information

    now: connect people, create community, provide information

    Internet: Heterotopia with many heterotopias

    within

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    Capable of juxtaposing -- in a single, real place -- several places

    virtual communities now lack visible signs that usually indicate

    how to interact with one another

    instead, textual descriptions are relied upon

    whats the difference between the textual description, and theimage

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    System of opening/closing restrict entry but allow some

    purification/rites or compulsory

    purification: (MHC) download Virus Software

    rites obtaining an internet connection

    logging on logging off

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    Either create a space of illusion that exposes real space, orelse it is a space that is otheras perfect as the real is

    chaotic

    the mere of creating internet communities virtualrealities of constructing them reflects how we construct

    our own real world

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    but remember heterotopias, while embodying all this

    are real places

    So the internet is a real place

    but real things dont happen there

    right?

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    there is the sense of the virtual and the real

    what is online isnt real

    > facts in virtual reality are shadowed by real life

    > in real life a bunch of people sit in front of their computers

    > typing typing typing

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    LambdaMOO, 1992a virtual chat space with virtualcharacters

    a rape in cyber space?But can you be raped without a body?

    wasnt it all virtual?

    .. it wasnt real

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    but if it wasnt real if it didnt really happen if no onewas harmed

    why did people react to it as a traumatic event?

    couldnt they just stop reading?

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    just a bunch of people, typing away at their computers!

    they could have just not read it they could have just logged

    off

    their virtual community isnt real!

    because its all on a network with some text!

    all it was was text!

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