Digital Affinity Group --> Questions

[Stefan Wray <swray@io.com>]

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D.A.G.

     (Digital Affinity Group)

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Question (1): If in Seattle, activists are organizing themselves into
affinity groups, small cells of people who know and trust one another, then
in cyberspace, following this model, how can we organize ourselves into
digital affinity groups, small cyber cells of people who know and trust one
another?

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C.C.

     (Cyber Cell)

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Question (2): But if trust that developes from sustained interaction among
a small group is one of the bases for forming a solid cell or affinity
group, how can such trust develop in cyberspace when the most we may know
about someone in this environment is an email address?

Question (3): Does this mean that a cyber cell must have a non-Internet
component? Rather, does this mean that people in a cyber cell, however
dispersed geographically, need to have met and known one another?

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T.

     (Trust)

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Question (4): If there is no trust, how can hacktivists engage in direct
action? Can we then only engage in symbolic action without risk that puts
no one in danger?






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