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... |
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Civilizing
Cyberspace: Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway Edited by Steven E. Miller and Thomas E. Stone, Nov 1995
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Communication
and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic
Environment Edited by Lance Strate, Ronald Jacobson, and Stephanie B. Gibson, May 1996
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Communities
in Cyberspace Edited by Marc A. Smith, Peter Kollock, and Ian Heywood, Dec 1998
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Community
Computing and Support Systems: Social Interaction in
Networked Communities Edited by Toru Ishida, Jan 1999
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Community
Networking Handbook by Stephen T. Bajjaly, Feb 1999
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Community
Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia Edited by Andrew Cohill and Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Jan 1997
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Conversation
and Community: Discourse in a Social MUD by Lynn Cherny, Feb 1999
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Cyberdemocracy:
Technology, Cities and Civic Networks Edited by Roza Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan, June 1998
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Cyberpower:
The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet by Tim Jordan, Mar 1999
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Cyber
Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age by Mike Godwin, July 1998
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Cybersociety
2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and
Community Edited by Steve Jones, July 1998
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Cyberspace:
The Human Dimension by David B. Whittle, Mar 1997
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Cyberville:
Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town by Stacy Horn, Jan 1998
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Electronic
Networks: Crossing Boundaries, Creating Communities Edited by Tharon W. Howard, Mar 1999
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The
Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology, and Global
Restructuring Edited by Brian Loader, Apr 1997
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Intellectual
Property Law in Cyberspace By G. Peter Albert, Oct 1999
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Internet
Culture Edited by David Porter, Jan 1997
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Life
on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle, Sep 1997
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Mapping
Cyberspace by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, Nov 2000
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Netlaw:
Your Legal Rights in Cyberspace by Gerald R. Ferrera et al, Feb 2001
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The
Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, May 1993 (Revised Edition) First edition published in 1978
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Networks
and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Margaret L. McLaughlin, and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Feb 1998
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New
Community Networks: Wired for Change by Douglas Schuler, Apr 1996
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Real
Law at Virtual Space: Communication Regulation in
Cyberspace Edited by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert, Oct 1999
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Sex,
Laws, and Cyberspace: Freedom and Censorship on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution by Jonathon Wallace, Mark Mangan (contributor), Mar 1997
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Virtual
Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace (Politics
and Culture) Edited by David Holmes, Jan 1998
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The
War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age by Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Sep 1996
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The
Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal
Online Community by Katie Hafner, Apr 2001
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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 |