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Godard, John Ellington, Jr.

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The moral order of cyberspace: Social structure and conflict management on the Internet.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The moral order of cyberspace: Social structure and conflict management on the Internet./
Author:	Godard, John Ellington, Jr.
Description:	292 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald Black.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Mass Communications. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3177477
ISBN:	9780542169946

The moral order of cyberspace: Social structure and conflict management on the Internet.
Godard, John Ellington, Jr.

The moral order of cyberspace: Social structure and conflict management on the Internet. - 292 p.

Adviser: Donald Black.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2005.

This dissertation investigates patterns of social control on the Internet. The study is informed, and the findings are organized, by a theoretical strategy invented by Donald Black (1976, 1993, and 1995) to explain variation in law. Specifically, the findings relate social characteristics of participants---including their relative social locations, and the social distances between them---to describe who is most likely to be wrong, who is most likely to be wronged, and how the expression of wrongs is shaped. The findings thus contribute to a growing body of literature that observes moral life not through individual transgressions, but in the social distribution of responses; and that thereby understands moral order not by fundamental distinctions of right and wrong, but as systematically patterned behavior.

ISBN: 9780542169946Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017395
Mass Communications.

The moral order of cyberspace: Social structure and conflict management on the Internet.
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520 $a This dissertation investigates patterns of social control on the Internet. The study is informed, and the findings are organized, by a theoretical strategy invented by Donald Black (1976, 1993, and 1995) to explain variation in law. Specifically, the findings relate social characteristics of participants---including their relative social locations, and the social distances between them---to describe who is most likely to be wrong, who is most likely to be wronged, and how the expression of wrongs is shaped. The findings thus contribute to a growing body of literature that observes moral life not through individual transgressions, but in the social distribution of responses; and that thereby understands moral order not by fundamental distinctions of right and wrong, but as systematically patterned behavior.
520 $a The explanatory model employed has five dimensions, each with several aspects, some measured here with more than one indicator. This model guided the design of sixty-three hypotheses, as well as the collection of data used to test those hypotheses. Observations from five online settings---four Usenet newsgroups and one mailing list---were selected for their expected sociological diversity. Characteristics of the participants and their interactions were gleaned from participation observation, as well as through interviews with 115 participants in 397 cases of conflict, through the administration of forty-two systematically varying instruments. This data was combined with measures from a purposive content analysis of five thousand messages, the culmination of fieldwork conducted over a period of nearly eight years.
520 $a The findings reflect the sociological similarity of cyberspace to off-line social life. The conventional explanation of online morality---"netiquette", a system of online norms---does not explain the occurrence, form, or structure of conflict online. Patterns of avoidance, confrontation, and partisanship are associated, above all, with the extent to which participants have interacted with, and become known to, each other. Even more significantly, characteristics apparent in online settings, such as frequency of participation, explain a greater amount of variance in moral life than do characteristics not readily apparent, such as employment or ethnicity.
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