Thought on the Convergence of Digital Media, Memory, and Social and Urban Spaces

To reach the effects that Casalegno is discussing he says that giving a community or social group a way to communicate is the cause and effect desired. They are focusing on the type of communicating that allows people to share simple software to create a virtual community to create new electronic agoras. Not knowing what agora meant I looked it up to find that it stems from the Greek word meaning central place, the literal meaning being "gathering place" or "assembly." These agoras were commonly known to be the center of athletic  artistic, spiritual and political life in the community. Having an electronic one would be like having a central gathering place where you could share information and meet with people in an electronic setting. Later Casalegno discusses how this Living Memory Project is shaping the social astetics of a community. The word community has changed in so many ways over the years that today what we think of a community is different than how he is meaning in his definition of community. He specifies that sending a message to a forum does not make us a part of a community immediately. He says that using those forms of communication technologies to build communities and societies we are not communication in the distance but we are creating distance in communication.