Visit rheingold.com for a more recent and web-ized version of this book The Virtual Community: Table of Contents By Howard Rheingold Note to readers: I can see that thousands of people are reading or at least looking at each chapter of this book every month. Excellent! I put these words out here for the Net without charge because I want to get as much good information distributed as possible ...

Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure By Jan Fernback & Brad Thompson * A version of this paper, entitled Computer-Mediated Communication and the American Collectivity: The Dimensions of Community Within Cyberspace, was presented at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1995 There is no there there. -- Gertrude Stein I.

SOCIETY, CYBERSPACE AND THE FUTURE How Can New Interactive Communication Technology Enhance Harmonious and Functional Communities at all Scales Worldwide Report of an Exploratory Aspen Workshop Prepared by: Bruce Murray California Institute of Technology bcm@mars1.gps.caltech.edu February, 1995 Abstract Rapid growth in population and consumption will place unprecedented stresses on natural ...

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