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This is emphasized by how they view Internet culture as a sort of
cultural reproduction rather than formation or reformation. It does show a
cultural value-scale on which Internet culture falls lower than physical and
off-line culture. This idea is affirmed by the authors’ notion that the Internet
misses socio-cultural practices, and that cyber-research must be brought back
into social and geographical spaces: concepts of power, socialized, racialized
and gendered power, along with the social strata of the individuals offline play
an important role.
This idea of a cultural reproduction online may be a little hasty, as,
with time, the Internet has taken on a life of its own as a medium in which
new cultures and communities develop; it is not one large space, but is made
up of a plurality of cyberspaces. This plays an important role because within
the slash fandoms several groups of people will move in spaces, and each
space is distinct. When I first became involved in the fandom, interaction and
production were predominately held on personal web pages, but as the slash
fandom expanded and
became more networked, it
moved into additional and
different spaces, such as
LiveJournals, archives, and
mailing lists, etc. The
personal contact in each of
Figure 1- A Mailing List featuring Spike from
BtVS
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