The Connected States of America (by senseablecitylab)

I think of this on a city scale; what is a community? if it is based on who connects to whom, what is the modern definition of neighborhood?

When I first moved to this city, I joined a livejournal community for it, and met irl many cool people, geeky people (who for me does not preclude being cool), socially charming people, socially challenged people… But while I was meeting individuals, they were also meeting each other, and there was a major overlap of real life friend groups that emerged out of the virtual community.

So far I haven’t seen an effective method of working the other direction: creating a virtual connection for people who already share physical proximity in what was called “neighborhood”.

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