Unintentional And Intentional Community

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. Cyberspace is a realm of communication. Cyberspace is like its own way of talking. People are part of this cyberspace as well. I say this because humans don’t really talk in person anymore. Do humans intentionally do this to the community or were it unintentional, and we were just consumed without knowing? Intentional is something done with a purpose or pertaining to it. Unintentional is something done by accident or no reason. A community is built by people with a purpose, or it can be built by accident because people decided it would be a good idea. The purpose of this essay is to explain the difference in an unintentional and intentional community and how the author feel about these two different types of communities.
Unintentional communities are spontaneous communities because they are built without a purpose or reason. Nomad people are an involuntary community because they move around and never settle. In the essay, it said they suffered from Diaspora. The article made it sound like this type of community was a disease that was never cured. In the story, a man tells about him growing up in an unintentional community. The name of this community was called Pinedale in Wyoming. He says, “I struggled generation to keep my ranch for nearly a generation. I was motivated by the belief that such places were the spiritual home of humanity. However, I knew their future was not promising.” I think he wanted the farm to be a place where people can come and just enjoy nature instead of being taken over by technology. The community was a suburban area, and it had farms, but it also had technology as well. He viewed this type of influence as toxic to the soul. The community becoming evolved in technology was unintentional because this w...

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...ny nature in person because of technology and only pictures. He also talks about how human should just accept cyberspace or not. He also refers to WELLS as a drug or some form object to distract his sadness.
The overall view of this essay is whether cyberspace should be accepted or not. This is like another form of a community except in a virtual form. This type of community could be intentional and involuntary because people can get attached by accident or change because that’s what they see around them. The author of the essay said his community was built unexpected. Change is going to happen to happen regardless, and the author shows that. In the beginning, he was like no cyberspace, and then he found this website and was entertained. Cyberspace is a community that people like.

References
Barlow Jerry “Is There a There in Cyberspace”, April 1, 2014

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