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Social aspects of online communication, community networks, electronic democracy, government policy, and more.

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (Revised Edition)
by Howard Rheingold, Nov 2000

Cyberculture authority Howard Rheingold was the first to write about online communities in this style that is part-travelogue and part-anthropological guide. This groundbreaking classic explores the entire virtual community, beginning with a selective but probing look at the author's original online home, The Well. Rheingold relates plenty of anecdotes that demonstrate the upsides of online life, such as how he was able to get information on removing a tick from his child before his doctor could...

Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway
Edited by Steven E. Miller and Thomas E. Stone, Nov 1995

 

Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment
Edited by Lance Strate, Ronald Jacobson, and Stephanie B. Gibson, May 1996

 

Communities in Cyberspace
Edited by Marc A. Smith, Peter Kollock, and Ian Heywood, Dec 1998

 

Community Computing and Support Systems: Social Interaction in Networked Communities
Edited by Toru Ishida, Jan 1999

 

Community Networking Handbook
by Stephen T. Bajjaly, Feb 1999

 

Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia
Edited by Andrew Cohill and Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Jan 1997

 

Conversation and Community: Discourse in a Social MUD
by Lynn Cherny, Feb 1999

 

Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks
Edited by Roza Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan, June 1998

 

Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet
by Tim Jordan, Mar 1999

 

Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
by Mike Godwin, July 1998

 

Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
Edited by Steve Jones, July 1998

 

Cyberspace: The Human Dimension
by David B. Whittle, Mar 1997

 

Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town
by Stacy Horn, Jan 1998

 

Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries, Creating Communities
Edited by Tharon W. Howard, Mar 1999

 

The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology, and Global Restructuring
Edited by Brian Loader, Apr 1997

 

Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace
By G. Peter Albert, Oct 1999

 

Internet Culture
Edited by David Porter, Jan 1997

 

Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
by Sherry Turkle, Sep 1997

 

Mapping Cyberspace
by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, Nov 2000

 

Netlaw: Your Legal Rights in Cyberspace
by Gerald R. Ferrera et al, Feb 2001

 

The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer
by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, May 1993 (Revised Edition)
First edition published in 1978

 

Networks and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet
Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret L. McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Feb 1998

 

New Community Networks: Wired for Change
by Douglas Schuler, Apr 1996

 

Real Law at Virtual Space: Communication Regulation in Cyberspace
Edited by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert, Oct 1999

 

Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace:
Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution

by Jonathon Wallace, Mark Mangan (contributor), Mar 1997

 

Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace (Politics and Culture)
Edited by David Holmes, Jan 1998

 

The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age
by Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Sep 1996

 

The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community
by Katie Hafner, Apr 2001

 

Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace
Edited by Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise, Apr 1996
Women Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace
Edited by Wendy Harcourt, Oct 1999

Omar R. Hadjar 2002-01-20