In-class response exercise to Carter’s ‘Cybercity’

Denise Carter, in her ethnography of Cybercity, concludes that social space is a social product (an argument she borrows from Henri Lefebvre, a French sociologist. After watching clips regarding ‘Second Life’, do you agree with this? If so, what do you think of the following question posed by Wellman and Gulia: ‘can online relationships between people who never see, smell, or hear each other be supportive and intimate?’

Each person in class needs to post a response to this question in class today as a comment here.