Networked organizing erases the spatial and temporal boundaries consciousness-raising depended on

Evidence

Women who wish to engage the personal as political in an age of networks need to understand that networked communication tends to complicate earlier ideas regarding appropriate ways to organize. Early consciousness-raising groups were often contentious and sometimes fractious. The women in them might differ intensely in life experience, or in their views on sexuality, work, motherhood, or any number of other questions. But they had more-or-less clear boundaries in space and time—each meeting had a beginning and an end, and each was conducted in a private space among participants who were known to one another. The communities examined in this book confound traditional conceptions of public and private, open and closed, creating profound implications for their participants. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts earlier material from World of Strangers about how preindustrial public space was heterogenous but boundaried; the same private/public boundary question recurs there. — connects to: Shared physical co-presence enables the cognitive harmonizations that build subjectivity — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 72; Joint attention requires co-presence, excluding algorithm-mediated influences — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 246; Shared world-making requires joint attention in physical co-presence

Broader Connections

• Shared physical co-presence enables the cognitive harmonizations that build subjectivity #complicates (0.78) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 72
• Joint attention requires co-presence, excluding algorithm-mediated influences #corroborates (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 246
• Shared world-making requires joint attention in physical co-presence #corroborates (0.72)