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Conflict and Co-Operation in the Virtual Community: eMail and the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession

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This article focuses on the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) during the wars of the Yugoslav succession, through three case studies of particular eMail networks, discussion groups and bulletin boards: zamir; APC/Yugo/Antiwar; and the Soc/Culture/Croatia and Soc/Culture/Yugoslavia newsgroups. The text addresses the relationship between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ communities and looks, in particular, at the role of eMail as a tool for social, political and cultural change. Despite the rhetoric of CMC as an inherently liberating and democratising medium, the suggestion is that power relations remain crucial in understanding all of the case studies. eMail may be most effective when part of a local discourse and practice of social change. The article concludes with a consideration of the link between different kinds of trust, or social capital, within the eMail world.

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  • Paul Stubbs, 1998. "Conflict and Co-Operation in the Virtual Community: eMail and the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 3(3), pages 84-97, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:3:y:1998:i:3:p:84-97
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.180
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    1. Sandra Dudley, "undated". "'External' Aspects of Self-Determination Movements in Burma," QEH Working Papers qehwps94, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
    2. Paul Stubbs, 1999. "Virtual Diaspora?: Imagining Croatia On-line," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 4(2), pages 62-74, July.
    3. N/A, 2004. "Christine Hine (2004) ‘Social Research Methods and the Internet: A Thematic Review’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 9(2), pages 110-116, May.

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