Webber

• What is propinquity?
• What is community without propinquity?
  Make a map of your own associations, both strong and weak. Are most of them in place associations? That is did you get to know the people because they shared the same place, or is it because of interests?
• How are interest communities different than propinquity communities?
• Is Weber correct?

Boden and Molotch pg. 101

• What would Boden and Molotch say in response to Webber's argument?
• Why are face-to-face bonds important?
• Why is place important?
• How do people communicate through touch?
• How does co-presence foster commitment?
• What is the role of commitment in face-to-face and virtual communication? How does it differ?
• Could problems with institutional communication be due to a lack of face-to face communication?
• Why are unplanned, informal encounters important for the fomation of community?
• What are the class implications for community of new technologies?
• What are the implications for the structure of the city?
  

Hampton pp. 256

• What was the experiment and what were the results?
• What were the shared interests around which community activism occured?
• Why did the developer vow never to design a community network for a housing development again?
• What made the formation of more intense community ties possible? Was it simply access to technology?
• Was the fact that a local network created key to promoting community ties?
• How could such a system be set up in Valparaiso?