Online
Communities
Regulatory
bureaucracy has replaced civic practice in many nations, a situation worsened
by the demise of the extended family. Place-specific issues determine
the nature of public interests and values for public life emerge from a
concrete context. People define themselves in terms of locale.
As Kemmis (1991) notes, "if in fact there is a connection between the places
we inhabit and the political culture which our inhabiting of them produces,
then perhaps it makes sense to begin with the place, with a sense of what
it is, and then try to imagine a way of being public which would fit the
place" (p. 41). Do online communities create a new "place" for people?
Is an online community truly a place? How are online communities
different? What is the connection between online communities and local
communities? --- Kemmis,
Daniel
Community
and the Politics of Place, 1991. 22(1):146.
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"Bob," "Thomas,"
and Other New Friends: Gender in Cyberspace - by Linda Gurak
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Articles
and Research Papers (UMD) - women and computing
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Baudrillard
in Cyberspace - "From a Baudrillardian perspective, this figuration
of Internet as a kind of cybernetic terrain works to undermine the symbolic
distance between the metaphoric and the real. It abandons "the real" for
the hyperreal by presenting an increasingly real simulation of a comprehensive
and comprehendible world. This heading points the way toward Baudrillard's
"hypertelia," that fated catastrophe when the sophistication of a model
outdoes the reality it attempts to comprehend."
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Building
an Internet Culture - Phil Agre
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Building
Collaborative Online Communities for K-12 - Jason Ravitz
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Center
for Digital Discourse and Culture - Virginia Tech
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CMC
Magazine: The Last Link: Utopian Visions of Cyberspace - by Laura Gurak
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Communities
in Cyberspace - New Forms of Social Interaction and Organization
- Marc Smith and Peter Kollock
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Communities
in Cyberspace - P. Kollock, P. and M. Smith
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Community
Building Discussion Tools
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CommunityTaxonomy
- Denham Grey
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Computer-Mediated
Groups: A Study of a Culture in Usenet - Holly Patterson
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Computers
and the Communication of Gender - by Elizabeth Lawley
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Conduct
Control on Usenet - by Smith and McLaughlin
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Creating
online communities in towns, villages and virtual spaces - "The Internet
enables 'virtual communities' to develop globally, linking people around
the world who have shared interests. These virtual communities usually
take the form of mailing lists, newsgroups and Web discussion forums. .
. However, the Internet is also being used to enhance local communities
- whether urban neighbourhoods or rural villages. This 'community networking'
goes beyond online discussion and Web pages to include everything from
public access and training to ecommerce and electronic democracy."
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Creating
technology-supported learning communities - B. Wilson
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Cross-Gender
Communication in Cyberspace - by Gladys We
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Cultural
Formations in Text-Based Virtual Realities - Elizabeth Reid
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Culture
& Cyber-Anthropology - Paul Kelly
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Cyberculture
Working Group - University of Maryland
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Cyberocracy
is Coming - by David Ronfeldt
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Cyberville
and the Sprit of Community - Roger Scime
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Design
for Network Communities - E. D. Mynatt, A. Adler, M. Ito, and
V.L. O'Day
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Design
Principles for Online Communities - Peter Kollock
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Designing
Systems that Support Social Processes - T. Erickson and W.A. Kellogg
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Developing
Personal and Emotional Relationships Via Computer-Mediated Communication
- by Brittney G. Chenault
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Digital
Shift or Digital Drift?: Conceptualizing Transitions From Paper Media to
Electronic Publishing and Digital ibraries in North American Universities-
by Lisa Covi and Rob Kling
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Does
Internet Create Democracy - by Alinta Thornton
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Dynamic
Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems
- B.Wilson and M. Ryder
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eGroups
(Now part of Yahoo).
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Envisioning Cyberspace:
The Design of OnLineCommunities - P. Anders
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Erving
Goffman, Dramaturgy, and On-Line Relationships - by Nikki Sannicolas
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Gender
and Participation in Synchronous CMC: An IRC Case Study
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Gender
Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage
to the New Frontier - by Susan Herring
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Gender
Issues in Online Communications - by Hoai-An Truong
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Gender
Language Style and Group Composition in Internet Discussion Groups
- by Savicki, Lingenfelter, and Kelley
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Gender
Swapping on the Internet - by A.S. Bruckman
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Gender,
Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls - by J. Michael
Jaffe, Young-Eum Lee, Li-Ning Huang, and Hayg Oshagan
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Getting
the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on
Virtual Communities - L. Paccagnella
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Human-Centered
Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments Report on the first
joint European Commission/National Science Foundation - Advanced Research
Workshop, 1-4 June 1999, Bonas, France
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Identity
and Deception in the Virtual Community - J.S. Donath
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Identity
and Deception in the Virtual Community - Judith Stefania Donath
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Inhabiting
the Virtual City: The Design of Social Environments for Electronic Communities
- Judith Stefania Donath
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Is
Any Body Out There? Gender, Subjectivity and Identity in Cyberspace
- by Steve Spittle
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Jason
Rutter's Papers - papers on cyber-social issues
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Language
and Power on IRC - by Simone Puterman
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Learning
through social interactions - M.R. Nichani
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Male/Female
Language use in computer Dyadic Interactions
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Managing
the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities
- Peter Kollock and Marc Smith
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Men
Online: Discussing Lived Experience on The Internet
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MOOSE
Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual
World for Kids - Amy Bruckman
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Musenet
- The Multi-User Science Education Network
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Nameless
in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet
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Net
Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communites - Barry
Wellman and Milena Gulia
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New
Organizational Forms & Virtual Communities - Paul Kelly
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On
the linguistic nature of cyberspace and virtual communities - by Anna
Cicognani
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Online
Community Builder's Tool-Kit- by Robin Hamman
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Online
Community Toolkit - Full Circle Associates
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On-Line
Smiles: Does Gender Make a Difference in the Use of Graphic Accents?
- by Witmer and Katzman
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Papers
on Cybersociology - Artemio Baigorr
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PerlHoo
- "Xhoo is a collaborative project whose goal is to create Open Source
Web Catalog software for various platforms and languages that can selectively
import data from the Open Directory Project. This project is currently
being supported by Webreference.com. Early releases are currently available
for Perl, ASP, and PHP. There are several related articles that appeared
at Mother of Perl that you may want to take a look at."
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Professional
Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement
- Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
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Professional
Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important? Issues...About
Change - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
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Reconceptualizing
Gender and its Relationship to Language in Computer-Mediated Communication
- by Michelle Rodino
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Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) - the University of Maryland
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Review
of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace - (Book review)
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Social
Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre -
T. Erickson
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Social
Scientific Research Methodology in Cyberspace - articles and books
dealing with research methodology in cyberspace.
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Sociological
and ethnographic research of cyberspace - cybersoc.com
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SocioSite:
CYBERSPACE AND WEBSOCIOLOGY
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Strategic
Design for Web Communities- NAIMA
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The
Challenge of SocioCybernetics - by Felix Geyer
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The
Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace -
Peter Kollock
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The
Electronic Learning Communities Research Group - Georgia Tech
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The
Internet as Mass Medium - Merrill Morris
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The
Internet Relay Chat (IRC): Linguistic Perspectives - Crosswinds is
a group of people who use the Internet and World Wide web, just like
you. Each member of our team brings knowledge and experience that has led
us to the conclusion that the Internet still is not totally free. We created
Crosswinds to do something about it."
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The
Internet, The Small World, and The Nature of Distance - Duncan Watts
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The
MUD Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a Text-Based Virtual Reality
- Lynn Cherny
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The
Online/Offline Dichotomy: Debunking Some Myths about AOL Users and the
Effects of their Being Online Upon Offline Friendships and Offline Community
- Robin Hamman
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The
Psychodynamic Effects of Virtual Reality - by Leslie Harris
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The
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
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The Society of Organisational Learning
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The
Stone Society - "The Stone Society is a socioeconomic technology suited
to the corporate management of shared human, logistic, software and capital
resources, online collaborative determination of policy, automatic network
load-balancing, and scalable online gaming. The Stone Society is not a
prescription for a specific kind of society, but a mechanism to support
an evolving network of many different societies."
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The
Virtual Speech Community: Social Network and Language Variation on IRC
- John Paolillo
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The
WELL
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Using
Personal Narrative to Grow Strong Online Learning Communities - C.J.
Clark
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VIRCOM
Virtual Communities - "We are studying virtual communities, their rise
and development, with the purpose to understand how they evolve, what they
mean, and how this development will affect raditional organizations and
even basic fundaments in society (such as democracy and participation)."
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Virtual
Communities - Links at the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies,
Fontainebleau Cedex, France
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Virtual
Communities in Japan - Kumiki Aoki
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VIRTUAL
COMMUNITIES, VIRTUAL SETTLEMENTS AND CYBER-ARCHAEOLOGY - by Quentin
Jones
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Virtual
Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure? - Jan Fernback and Brad Thompson
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Virtual
Community Presence in Internet Relay Chatting - G.Z. Liu
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Virtual
Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed: Sorry, We Ran Out of Space--So It's Just
a Guy Thing - by J. Yellowlees
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Virtual
Worlds: Communities and Realities - Howard Rheingold
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VirtualCommunitySpecifications
- Denham Grey
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Voices
from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons - M.A. Smith
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Women
and Girls Last: Females and the Internet - by Janet Morahan-Martin
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Writing
in the Body: Gender (Re)Production in Cyber Interactions - J. O'Brien