"Can Cyberspace have Margins?"
Historically, print discourse is perceived as a space with a more-or-less
clear center and margins, and this perception has been crucial to the
formation of "imagined communities" around certain common experiences -- of
what Samuel Johnson called "nations of readers." Electronic media, though,
seem not to support this common spatial picture; the center seems to be
everywhere, and the circumference nowhere. All of which leads to the
question of whether electronic interaction on its own can sustain a sense
of broad community in the way that print has -- or whether it has to.