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Media: micronation in the mirror of sociology

pracownia54 , Peter Siuda

micronation plot is rather GDS, which is quite a lot about it and write what I know, is an active member of one of the virtual
countries operating in the "Polish" network. Despite this, and I decided to "bite" about this, though a bit differently than Greg, that is, from the perspective of teacher, who is trying to "find" and describe educational and behavioral aspects of participation in such communities.

became interested in the v-states as a sociologist, a lot of your time and energy devoted to analyzing, testing and describing various aspects of community virtual. Surfing through a variety of cyber-states by watching their side, being very impressed with everything associated with them (flags, emblems, own history, authority, religion,

own TV

, economy, etc., etc.), I came to mind a thought - after all, something like this has never been in the history of the virtual community!

short, for investigating the sociology of internet communities, v-state may become an interesting research area for one simple reason. They are specific and unusual communities in which processes occur rarely (if ever) exist in other e-communities.

Consider even the structure of inequality such communities.

In general it is stressed that in virtual communities do not have any clear "dominant class", a group of websites are not encumbered by traditional barriers of socio-economic hierarchy, etc. There are some clear structure of inequality - or simply be a member, or not . Virtual communities are more "beyond" statusowymi divisions existing in the "real world", "blur" and eliminate them. There also create new, one might say, the virtual division status (except may be the position of moderator, administrator, however this is not there any special profitami). Otherwise, is true of the v-states that what the law is "cut off" from the "real" structure of inequality, but formed a new, distinctive only for myself - just look at the power structure of the Principality

Sarmatia

or

Mandragoratu Wandystanu .

micronation certainly constitute the most extensive hierarchy of position and status of all known me a virtual community. Typically, most obviously the ruler is located the country, political leaders and others exercising public functions. In addition, we have many other items, classes and social strata (entrepreneurs, scientists, etc.). The higher one is in the hierarchy, the greater the impact on the functioning of the virtual state. It seems that, in connection with such a highly developed hierarchy, may be worse also generally quite weak in virtual communities, the processes of social control.

For a sociologist interested in the issue may also extent to which the v-state build a collective identity of its members. It is worth trying to answer the question - do not do this in a much greater extent than other virtual communities?

happen so

may be because they are based on the nationality and identity much more than any other online community. Prominence on their pages unique to their national symbols, sets of laws, history, and sometimes even the currency, religion or language. Also rely heavily on the involvement of members and their mutual cooperation. Power in mikronacjach, social control and building a collective identity of their members is probably just some of the aspects that could deal with sociologists, and which testify to the specificity of this kind of virtual communities.

Among other things, I spoke about it at a conference in Kielce, which has already will soon pick (probably write about in a later posts).

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