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Title: Communities in Cyberspace by Marc A. Smith, Peter Kollock ISBN: 0-415-19140-8 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really good one for researchers
Comment: Very good articles above important aspects of virtual communities like identity, gender, sociability and other stuff written by people that really knows about the subject, famous researchers. If you are a researcher, you'll love it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good resource for writers and academics
Comment: This book covers four main areas in regards to online communities: identity, social order and control, community structure and dynamics, and collective action.
Like many other texts on community, this book tends to focus on older technologies, i.e. Usenet, and MUDs/MOOs. That said, it contains a lot of good analysis done in these areas, and can provide good background for writing about online community. Note that the articles tend to be from the perspective of sociology. The strongest articles, in my opinion, were chapter 2, "Identity and deception in the virtual community," chapter 7, "Virtual communities as communities: Net surfers don't ride alone," and chapter 10, "The promise and peril of social action in cyberspace."
If you are interested in building a community or just in the ideas of online communities, this is probably not the best book for you -- it's pretty academic. Check out Jenny Preece's _Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability_ as an alternative.
Rating: 3
Summary: Lost in (cyber)space?
Comment: I was introduced to this book because my enlightened sociology prof used it as a text for our discussions of sociology and cyberspace.
Some intellectually stimulating articles, like Jodi O'Brien's discussion of gender. It was very stimulating . . . However, the book was far too focused on issues relating to North America and the West generally. What about the rest of the world?
Some sections were extremely dull. This is exciting stuff, why must people pervert it into intellectual cheeseburgers?
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Title: The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, revised edition by Howard Rheingold ISBN: 0262681218 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Virtual Culture : Identity and Communication in Cybersociety by Steve Jones ISBN: 0761955267 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 20 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle ISBN: 0684833484 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability by Jennifer Preece ISBN: 0471805998 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory : Magic, Metaphor, Power by Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss ISBN: 0415925029 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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