{"id":168,"date":"2006-12-29T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-12-29T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T20:25:00","slug":"social-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/social-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Social surgery…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“With your help, we will provide a friendly, safe, easy to use place on the Web … This is a place where you take the lead in telling your own story. … In return, we ask that you meet this character challenge: be a good citizen and exhibit community leadership qualities. It’s a simple and golden rule. Act as you would like your neighbors to act.”<\/span>C<\/span>ommunities. Don’t you just love them? Everyone wants to build, create and sustain them. Well anyone who remembers the vid<\/a> for Bronski Beat<\/span>‘s Small Town Boy<\/span> will recall that communities aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. They’re home to cranks, bullies and narrow-mindedness of original ’00’ Hornby gauge. Yup, Durkheimian anomie<\/span> has something going for it after all.

<\/span>But there are still plenty of people who think the online world can be different to the real world.<\/span> Steve Yelvington<\/span> appears to be one of them, and he has obviously had enough of the people he calls ‘bums’ and ‘scum’. He blogs on social surgery here<\/a>, and has this advice: <\/p>\n

If your message boards are rotten, shut them down and start over with a sense of purpose. You can’t do it without the help of your community. And the community needs you to be a leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And without wishing to make trouble – we’re back to a world of control and leadership. Do as you would be done by. Homespun philosophy, the way mom made it.<\/p>\n

Let’s all say it again slowly – new media is not an instrument for grass roots social change. Nor is the next new media, or the one after that. (Conspiracy theorists please note: nor are they instruments for elite social manipulation either.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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