The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:228705 L3 - citeulike-article-id:228705 N2 - {Written by the man known as the First Citizen of the Internet, this book covers Rheingold's experiences with virtual communities. It starts off with his home community, The Well, out of Sausilito, CA, and makes its way through MUDs and beyond. No one understands the compelling strength of online community like Rheingold.} {Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's behavior in cyberspace. Indeed, contends Rheingold, people relate to each other online much the same as they do in physical communities.<br /> <br /> Originally published in 1993, <i>The Virtual Community</i> is more timely than ever. This edition contains a new chapter, in which the author revisits his ideas about online social communication now that so much more of the world's population is wired. It also contains an extended bibliography.} SN - 0262681218 TI - The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier PB - The MIT Press KW - communities KW - dissertation KW - theorist KW - wells AU - Rheingold, Howard PY - 2000/11/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0262681218 ER -