Virtual Community
‘If you try to build community you break it. If you love your brothers and sisters, then you build community’
- Reverend Mother
‘A group of ‘I’s brought together to be a group of ‘Thou’s’
- Bonhoeffer building on Buber.
Social models of the Trinity and questions of presence and relation, hypostasis and ekstasis (Zizioulas), on-line.
What does the incarnation have to say to the question of virtual existing!?
How do you do service on-line?
What would happen if technology developed to the extent that we could engage with each other pseudo-physically?
But, what would be our the reasons for doing so?
Pneumatology and virtual reality - an existential deposit, way of being.
What parallels are there between virtual reality and relationships and the way Christians live in the light of eschatological anticipation of final consumation.
What is community?
space - geography
time - history
shared interests
shared narratives
Trinity a model?
positive and negative implications
dialectic, dialogical and diachronic
(see Ollerton, 2002).
Social network sites.
Different levels of openness. Dealing with complaints and disquiet online.
(see Rice 2009, on Facebook)
What is the relationship between Facebook use and human development into adolescents.
The taxonomy of friendship - a new social structuralism. Do public friendships really work? (Rosen cited in Rice, p 113)
See Hipps on ‘meaningful mission’. He highlights four aspects that you need: 1) shared history/narrative, 2) permanence, 3) proximity 4) shared imagination (in Rice 2009, p 163). Need to know how he arrives at this conclusion.
Second Life http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1
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