2013-05-19T04:50:04-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7696&Focus=218005#Comment_218005 2010-02-03T19:46:08-08:00 2010-02-03T20:04:22-08:00 Rootfireember http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1551

"Online culture increasingly resembles a slum in disturbing ways. Slums have more advertising than wealthy neighborhoods, for instance. People are meaner in slums; mob rule and vigilantism are ...

Online culture increasingly resembles a slum in disturbing ways. Slums have more advertising than wealthy neighborhoods, for instance. People are meaner in slums; mob rule and vigilantism are commonplace..."
You are not a gadget, Jaron Lanier, ch5

Ran across this quote while reading.
What're your thoughts on this? If the internet=slums, does this mean Whitechapel is a more gentrified area, being as we have fewer advertisements and trolls? Is this true, or is it giving the characteristics of a "real life" place to one that isn't quite the same?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7696&Focus=218018#Comment_218018 2010-02-03T21:35:29-08:00 2013-05-19T04:50:04-07:00 munin218 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=246

I think it's an attempt to characterize it as a real life place, when its something different altogether. The problem with trying to apply traditional psychosocial thinking to a new phenomena is that ...