Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Is Facebook a Contact Zone?

What is considered a contact zone? A place where you can have face-to-face contact with someone, anyone. I consider Facebook to be a contact zone because you Re communicating with many people of your age, and older all in one place. You have yourself a community of Facebook friends that may not necessarily be your friend outside of Facebook. Can anything be a contact zone? Yes, yes it can. Anywhere you have a group of people or just one other person in it , you have a contact zone. For example, any games you play on the internet, or blogs (like this one) that you talk to people. Anything you have in common with your friends or family you can consider it a contact zone.

1 comment:

  1. I'm not sure anything can be a CZ.
    Think of a space where cultures (particular social, ethnic or age group) come together for a common purpose, "knock[ing] against each other and where all kinds of give and take occcurs."

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