Cybersociety

Everytime I access my computer for information or other, I feel I am entering a different world. A world where there are unknowns. Thurlow (2004) justifies my perception with the term cybersociety. While I very seldom communicate on-line at home, I do communicate via email at work frequently because it allows me to access multiple individuals at once. I feel safer in an INTRAnet environment than I do internet. Because of this, it does lay foundtion that communication via the computer has created its own society(s) and culture(s) within this unknown space.

This is a very interesting group dynamic. According to Johnson and Johnson (2003) Members' power is based on expertise, ability, and access to information, not on authority or personality characteristics. Group members should form coalitions that help fulfill personal goals on the basis of mutual influence and interdependence (pg.13).