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"Since writing this paper I have come across Lozada (1998), who anticipates some of the problems I am dealing with here. He drives towards the opposite conclusion, however, arguing that an internet community is indeed a corporate group, and that 'daily face-to-face contact is not a prerequisite to maintaining community intimacy'. My point here is that in no community is face-to-face contact the salient feature, and indeed that an absence of intimacy characterises most communities.
38 Sennett (1999) maintains very explicitly that the increase in the 'value of place' was one of the two major changes in modern society over the previous two decades, directly linked to the dissolution of the traditional working-place and work ethos.
39 A character in one of Iris Murdoch's novels remarks on the strangeness of the life that one leads in other peoples' dreams.
40 See Levi-Strauss (1963); Radcliffe-Brown (1940; 1957).
41 See Radcliffe-Brown's letter to Levi-Strauss, cited by George Murdock (Sol Tax et al. 1953).
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"Since writing this paper I have come across Lozada (1998), who anticipates some of the problems I am dealing with here. He drives towards the opposite conclusion, however, arguing that an internet community is indeed a corporate group, and that 'daily face-to-face contact is not a prerequisite to maintaining community intimacy'. My point here is that in no community is face-to-face contact the salient feature, and indeed that an absence of intimacy characterises
most communities.
38 Sennett (1999) maintains very explicitly that the increase in the 'value of place
was one of the two major changes in modern society over the previous two decades, directly linked to the dissolution of the traditional working-place and work ethos.
39 A character in one of Iris Murdoch's novels remarks on the strangeness of the
life that one leads in other peoples' dreams.
40 See Levi-Strauss (1963); Radcliffe-Brown (1940;1957).
41 See Radcliffe-Brown's letter to Levi Strauss, cited by George Murdock (Sol
Tax et.al. 1953).
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