The NEST (Network of Engendered Spirituality Talk) of "Othered" Men: A Comparative Cross-Cultural Mapping of Spirituality Exchanges in the Internet by Non-heterosexual Men. Bantugan, B. In Kim, S. D. & Lee, M. Y., editors, pages 331--347, October, 2006. The Executive Agency for Culture Cities, The Ministry of Culture & Tourism. abstract bibtex Integrating the spiral dynamics theory of Dr. Don Beck into a modified network structure analysis approach that is more organic in representation, the study attempted to achieve a crosscultural mapping of the interactions in two selected forums of non-heterosexual men that discussed similar issues on spirituality. The study downloaded the threads from www.downelink.com and www.guys4men.com and derived high activity networks from each. The network logic, ethics and politics that came from the network analysis were compared and contrasted and synthesized to arrive at distinct and common characteristics of global and local cyberforum networks. The study revealed that both local and global cyberforum threads are participated in, if not dominated, by 20-something Filipino men. However, despite the greater scope and openness of the global forums in downelink, the density of men participating in that network is not very far from the density of those in the local guys4men. The two networks, bound within a four-month period, were found to be sporadic; starting from the blue meme and eventually dominated by the green meme as a whole, especially when the former changes the latter into a red meme; and possess interactions that are assymetrical, mutually weak, and unreciprocal. The difference between the two lies in the orientation of the of the network fall-out at the end of their peak levels. The 4-month local NEST seems to fizzle out more easily than the global NEST that has endured for over 30 months. The local is more centered as the reaction to the superhub of other hubs and nodes stimulates the growth of the NEST. The global NEST also has an active local NEST superhub but is more detached from the other nodes and hubs, allowing for more nodes to make a mark in the NEST. The global NEST, then, is more decentered and this is accounted for by a more task-oriented superhub. In contrast, the local NEST superhub is more social-oriented. The major hubs in both NESTs show a combination of task and social orientation. However, the local NEST hubs tend to be more antagonistic of their superhub than the global NEST hubs are with theirs. This indicates that the former are more imposing than the latter. Finally, the politics in the global NEST is distinct in that the sense of NEST ownership lies in the blue-memed initiator of the thread, whereas in the local NEST, the NEST is deemed a territory of the more dominant green-memed members of the community that sponsors the thread than its blue-memed initiator. In both NESTs the red meme drives the antagonism between the blue and green memes. The local NEST shows more antagonism, however, indicating a more spiritually engaged and conflicted non-heterosexual community in cyberspace.
@inproceedings{kim_nest_2006,
title = {The {NEST} ({Network} of {Engendered} {Spirituality} {Talk}) of "{Othered}" {Men}: {A} {Comparative} {Cross}-{Cultural} {Mapping} of {Spirituality} {Exchanges} in the {Internet} by {Non}-heterosexual {Men}},
abstract = {Integrating the spiral dynamics theory of Dr. Don Beck into a modified network structure analysis approach that is more organic in representation, the study attempted to achieve a crosscultural mapping of the interactions in two selected forums of non-heterosexual men that discussed similar issues on spirituality. The study downloaded the threads from www.downelink.com and www.guys4men.com and derived high activity networks from each. The network logic, ethics and politics that came from the network analysis were compared and contrasted and synthesized to arrive at distinct and common characteristics of global and local cyberforum networks. The study revealed that both local and global cyberforum threads are participated in, if not dominated, by 20-something Filipino men. However, despite the greater scope and openness of the global forums in downelink, the density of men participating in that network is not very far from the density of those in the local guys4men. The two networks, bound within a four-month period, were found to be sporadic; starting from the blue meme and eventually dominated by the green meme as a whole, especially when the former changes the latter into a red meme; and possess interactions that are assymetrical, mutually weak, and unreciprocal. The difference between the two lies in the orientation of the of the network fall-out at the end of their peak levels. The 4-month local NEST seems to fizzle out more easily than the global NEST that has endured for over 30 months. The local is more centered as the reaction to the superhub of other hubs and nodes stimulates the growth of the NEST. The global NEST also has an active local NEST superhub but is more detached from the other nodes and hubs, allowing for more nodes to make a mark in the NEST. The global NEST, then, is more decentered and this is accounted for by a more task-oriented superhub. In contrast, the local NEST superhub is more social-oriented. The major hubs in both NESTs show a combination of task and social orientation. However, the local NEST hubs tend to be more antagonistic of their superhub than the global NEST hubs are with theirs. This indicates that the former are more imposing than the latter. Finally, the politics in the global NEST is distinct in that the sense of NEST ownership lies in the blue-memed initiator of the thread, whereas in the local NEST, the NEST is deemed a territory of the more dominant green-memed members of the community that sponsors the thread than its blue-memed initiator. In both NESTs the red meme drives the antagonism between the blue and green memes. The local NEST shows more antagonism, however, indicating a more spiritually engaged and conflicted non-heterosexual community in cyberspace.},
publisher = {The Executive Agency for Culture Cities, The Ministry of Culture \& Tourism},
author = {Bantugan, Brian},
editor = {Kim, Shin Dong and Lee, Mi Young},
month = oct,
year = {2006},
pages = {331--347}
}
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