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.
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
- Articles and Research Papers (UMD) - women and computing
- 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."
-
Building
an Internet Culture - Phil Agre
-
Building
Collaborative Online Communities for K-12 - Jason Ravitz
- Center for Digital Discourse and Culture - Virginia Tech
- CMC Magazine: The Last Link: Utopian Visions of Cyberspace - by Laura Gurak
- Communities in Cyberspace - New Forms of Social Interaction and Organization - Marc Smith and Peter Kollock
- Communities in Cyberspace - P. Kollock, P. and M. Smith
- Community Building Discussion Tools
- CommunityTaxonomy - Denham Grey
- Computer-Mediated Groups: A Study of a Culture in Usenet - Holly Patterson
- Computers and the Communication of Gender - by Elizabeth Lawley
- Conduct Control on Usenet - by Smith and McLaughlin
- 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."
- Creating technology-supported learning communities - B. Wilson
- Cross-Gender Communication in Cyberspace - by Gladys We
- Cultural Formations in Text-Based Virtual Realities - Elizabeth Reid
- Culture & Cyber-Anthropology - Paul Kelly
- Cyberculture Working Group - University of Maryland
- Cyberocracy is Coming - by David Ronfeldt
- Cyberville and the Sprit of Community - Roger Scime
- Design for Network Communities - E. D. Mynatt, A. Adler, M. Ito, and V.L. O'Day
- Design Principles for Online Communities - Peter Kollock
- Designing Systems that Support Social Processes - T. Erickson and W.A. Kellogg
- Developing Personal and Emotional Relationships Via Computer-Mediated Communication - by Brittney G. Chenault
- 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
- Does Internet Create Democracy - by Alinta Thornton
- Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems - B.Wilson and M. Ryder
- eGroups (Now part of Yahoo).
- Envisioning Cyberspace: The Design of OnLineCommunities - P. Anders
- Erving Goffman, Dramaturgy, and On-Line Relationships - by Nikki Sannicolas
- Gender and Participation in Synchronous CMC: An IRC Case Study
- Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier - by Susan Herring
- Gender Issues in Online Communications - by Hoai-An Truong
- Gender Language Style and Group Composition in Internet Discussion Groups - by Savicki, Lingenfelter, and Kelley
- Gender Swapping on the Internet - by A.S. Bruckman
- Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls - by J. Michael Jaffe, Young-Eum Lee, Li-Ning Huang, and Hayg Oshagan
- Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities - L. Paccagnella
- 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
- Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community - J.S. Donath
- Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community - Judith Stefania Donath
- Inhabiting the Virtual City: The Design of Social Environments for Electronic Communities - Judith Stefania Donath
- Is Any Body Out There? Gender, Subjectivity and Identity in Cyberspace - by Steve Spittle
- Jason Rutter's Papers - papers on cyber-social issues
- Language and Power on IRC - by Simone Puterman
- Learning through social interactions - M.R. Nichani
- Male/Female Language use in computer Dyadic Interactions
- Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities - Peter Kollock and Marc Smith
- Men Online: Discussing Lived Experience on The Internet
- MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids - Amy Bruckman
- Musenet - The Multi-User Science Education Network
- Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet
- Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communites - Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia
- New Organizational Forms & Virtual Communities - Paul Kelly
- On the linguistic nature of cyberspace and virtual communities - by Anna Cicognani
- Online Community Builder's Tool-Kit- by Robin Hamman
- Online Community Toolkit - Full Circle Associates
- On-Line Smiles: Does Gender Make a Difference in the Use of Graphic Accents? - by Witmer and Katzman
- 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."
- Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
- Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important? Issues...About Change - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
- Reconceptualizing Gender and its Relationship to Language in Computer-Mediated Communication - by Michelle Rodino
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) - the University of Maryland
- Review of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace - (Book review)
- Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre - T. Erickson
- Social Scientific Research Methodology in Cyberspace - articles and books dealing with research methodology in cyberspace.
- Sociological and ethnographic research of cyberspace - cybersoc.com
- SocioSite: CYBERSPACE AND WEBSOCIOLOGY
- Strategic Design for Web Communities- NAIMA
- The Challenge of SocioCybernetics - by Felix Geyer
- The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace - Peter Kollock
- The Electronic Learning Communities Research Group - Georgia Tech
- The Internet as Mass Medium - Merrill Morris
- 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."
- The Internet, The Small World, and The Nature of Distance - Duncan Watts
- The MUD Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a Text-Based Virtual Reality - Lynn Cherny
- 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
- The Psychodynamic Effects of Virtual Reality - by Leslie Harris
-
The
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
- The Society of Organisational Learning
- 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."
- The Virtual Speech Community: Social Network and Language Variation on IRC - John Paolillo
- The WELL
- Using Personal Narrative to Grow Strong Online Learning Communities - C.J. Clark
- 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)."
- Virtual Communities - Links at the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies, Fontainebleau Cedex, France
- Virtual Communities in Japan - Kumiki Aoki
- VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES, VIRTUAL SETTLEMENTS AND CYBER-ARCHAEOLOGY - by Quentin Jones
- Virtual Communities: Abort, Retry, Failure? - Jan Fernback and Brad Thompson
- Virtual Community Presence in Internet Relay Chatting - G.Z. Liu
- Virtual Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed: Sorry, We Ran Out of Space--So It's Just a Guy Thing - by J. Yellowlees
- Virtual Worlds: Communities and Realities - Howard Rheingold
- VirtualCommunitySpecifications - Denham Grey
- Voices from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons - M.A. Smith
- Women and Girls Last: Females and the Internet - by Janet Morahan-Martin
- Writing in the Body: Gender (Re)Production in Cyber Interactions - J. O'Brien
