production issues

Kicking off from a point that puts some of the process prior to a definitively decided project out in the open (for all and none), the blog begins - for real this time - with a cluster of issues that present an early dilemma. Luckily for me, it seems that these same might already appear as a cluster, too, of conceptual problems that could play into anything I pursue along the lines that this project sets out on.

Long story short, I'm into looking at the workings, pluses/pitfalls and political (always already personal) practices manifested in online activist communities - particularly on what might get labeled the 'radical left.' Without getting into the sinuous and potentially endless production of explaining exactly what that means (for now), let's just say that I'm interested in those with (nebulous or explicit) anarchist leanings, 'radical' anti-capitalist and anti-oppression politics. In and of itself, these designations open up a hornets' nest of differences and disagreements (platformist vs. synthesist vs. poststructuralist anarchsims, for example); more pertinently though, the exercise of operationalizing such a project idea as a (virtually) located 'cyberspace ethnography' in a minimal time-frame presents its own issues:

1) interaction: A lot of obvious 'activist' (especially 'anarchist') sites are essentially Indymedia or message-board type productions; no dialogue, as such. 'cyberspace ethnography' (or whatever) seems like it needs to be beyond 'discourse analysis' of texts that only 'interact' in the indirect manner of texts everywhere that don't particularly seek to address others in an explicitly conceived dialogue (with whatever elements). Possible solutions: high volume blogging (with interlocutors love of commentary), discussion groups, or...???
2) spaces/locations: I've previously focused on activist productions largely around and about the city of Montreal; in 'meat-space' it's pretty helpful to draw these kinds of boundaries, if only to focus one's efforts. With an exception 0or two, those virtual locations associated with the geographical one I've been stuck on fall into the rpoblematic outlined above. Maybe 'local' sites are structured as they are bc the 'real action' is virtually unlocalizeable in geographic terms?
3)...is really an offshoot of the above: what would it mean for the relationship between online 'activist' or 'anarchist' communities and the (inevitably somewhat) local geographic contexts of what many anarchists have been fond of calling 'direct action' or 'la propagande par le fait'?

Points to ponder...