Research Catalog

Title

The virtual community : homesteading on the electronic frontier / Howard Rheingold.

Author

Rheingold, Howard.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xxxii, 447 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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." "Originally published in 1993, The Virtual Community 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 expanded bibliography."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Computer networks > Social aspects
• Internet

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-426) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The heart of the WELL -- Daily life in cyberspace: how the computerized counterculture built a new kind of place -- Visionaries and convergences : the accidental history of the net -- Grassroots groupminds -- Multi-user dungeons and alternate identities -- Real-time tribes -- Japan and the net -- Telematique and messageries roses : a tale of two virtual communities -- Electronic frontiers and online activists -- Disinformocracy -- Rethinking virtual communities.

ISBN

0262681218 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00041851^

OCLC

889049626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library