Well, if it's not 'culture' I am not sure what the right word is. I was trying to make a point broader than the charity thing, really.
We have all these little worlds that are socially more or less selfcontained, that have their own rituals and artifacts and words and events and accepted modes of behaviour. I know the fanfic world has these: so does the online dog rescue world, the UK online gardening world (which isn't the same as the US online gardening world and don't risk suggesting it might be or you will be flamed back into the corn carrying your raccoons with you...) , the website accessibility world, and the php development world, and the search engine optimisation world (the last three less so as they are less self-contained, being largely 'work worlds').
If dog people are not just coming together to form a charity, but meeting up for social events and holidays, writing poetry, making images and even paintings and sculpture for consumption by their community, if they have their own shops, auctions, their own 'laws' the breaking of which results in expulsion, I would argue that they are genuinely forming a culture of their own. There isn't much 'dog people' music in it yet, but I suspect there might be in a few years when it's easier to share information that requires a lot of bandwidth and people are that much more familiar with the tools they would need to make recordings. There are even dog people seers and what might almost be described as dog people Books of Lore.
Weird, isn't it. I think there are cultures like this one breaking out all over the internet, and that they are going to get stronger.
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Date: 2007-05-16 12:36 pm (UTC)We have all these little worlds that are socially more or less selfcontained, that have their own rituals and artifacts and words and events and accepted modes of behaviour. I know the fanfic world has these: so does the online dog rescue world, the UK online gardening world (which isn't the same as the US online gardening world and don't risk suggesting it might be or you will be flamed back into the corn carrying your raccoons with you...) , the website accessibility world, and the php development world, and the search engine optimisation world (the last three less so as they are less self-contained, being largely 'work worlds').
If dog people are not just coming together to form a charity, but meeting up for social events and holidays, writing poetry, making images and even paintings and sculpture for consumption by their community, if they have their own shops, auctions, their own 'laws' the breaking of which results in expulsion, I would argue that they are genuinely forming a culture of their own. There isn't much 'dog people' music in it yet, but I suspect there might be in a few years when it's easier to share information that requires a lot of bandwidth and people are that much more familiar with the tools they would need to make recordings. There are even dog people seers and what might almost be described as dog people Books of Lore.
Weird, isn't it. I think there are cultures like this one breaking out all over the internet, and that they are going to get stronger.