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The Virtual Community, revised edition

Author : Howard Rheingold
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262261104
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Community, revised edition written by Howard Rheingold and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-10-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community—one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's behavior in cyberspace. Indeed, contends Rheingold, people relate to each other online much the same as they do in physical communities. Originally published in 1993, The Virtual Community is more timely than ever. This edition contains a new chapter, in which the author revisits his ideas about online social communication now that so much more of the world's population is wired. It also contains an extended bibliography.

The Virtual Community

Author : Howard Rheingold
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9780436412141
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Community written by Howard Rheingold and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis

Author : Akoumianakis, Demosthenes
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605663417
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis written by Akoumianakis, Demosthenes and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an analysis of virtual communities, explaining their lifecycle in terms of maturity-based models and workflows.

Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories

Author : Li, Honglei
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466603135
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories written by Li, Honglei and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation,covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publishe

The Mall of America

Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Galde Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781880090589
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Mall of America written by Eric Nelson and published by Galde Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Second Lives

Author : Astrid Ensslin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136809287
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Creating Second Lives written by Astrid Ensslin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’s philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which manifests itself in ‘natural’ and built environments as well as the triad of space, place and landscape. The contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds include media, communication, cultural and literary studies, and they examine issues of reception and production, identity, community, gender, spatiality, natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis.

Tools for Thought

Author : Howard Rheingold
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681155
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Tools for Thought written by Howard Rheingold and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. Taking the reader step by step from nineteenth-century mathematics to contemporary computing, he introduces a fascinating collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries. The book was originally published in 1985, and Rheingold's attempt to envision computing in the 1990s turns out to have been remarkably prescient. This edition contains an afterword, in which Rheingold interviews some of the pioneers discussed in the book. As an exercise in what he calls "retrospective futurism," Rheingold also looks back at how he looked forward.

Design for Community

Author : Derek Powazek
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0132798182
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Design for Community written by Derek Powazek and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as an Adobe Reader eBook on the publisher's website: newriders.com Communities are part of all successful web sites in one way or another. It looks at the different stages that must be understood: Philosophy: Why does your site need community? What are your measures of success? Architecture: How do you set up a site to createpositive experience? How do you coax people out of their shells and get them to share their experiences online? Design: From color choice to HTML, how do you design the look of a community area? Maintenance: This section will contain stories of failed web communities, and what they could have done to stay on track, as well as general maintenance tips and tricks for keeping your community “garden” growing.

Virtual Politics

Author : Dr David Holmes, Llb
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446240069
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Politics written by Dr David Holmes, Llb and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-12-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

Online Communities

Author : Chris Werry
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Online Communities written by Chris Werry and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a variety of viewpoints regarding e-commerce, higher education through distance learning, democratization of universities, development of the Internet into a free universal encyclopaedia, community organization, etc.

Community Building on the Web

Author : Amy Jo Kim
Publisher : Peachpit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780132705158
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Community Building on the Web written by Amy Jo Kim and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the point of creating a great Web site if no one goes there-or worse, if people come but never return? How do some sites, such as America Online, EBay, and GeoCities, develop into Internet communities with loyal followings and regular repeat traffic? How can Web page designers and developers create sites that are vibrant and rewarding? Amy Jo Kim, author of Community Building on the Web and consultant to some of the most successful Internet communities, is an expert at teaching how to design sites that succeed by making new visitors feel welcome, rewarding member participation, and building a sense of their own history. She discusses important design strategies, interviews influential Web community-builders, and provides the reader with templates and questionnaires to use in building their own communities.

Durkheimian Sociology

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396479
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Durkheimian Sociology written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic works of Emile Durkheim are characterized by a structural approach to the understanding of collective behaviour, and it is this element of his writings that has been most taken up by modern social science. This volume, however, rejects the dominant structural approach, and draws instead on Durkheim's later work, in which he shifted to a symbolic theory of modern industrial societies that emphasized the importance of ritual and placed the tension between the sacred and the profane at the center of society. In so doing, the contributors offer both a radically different approach to Durkheimian sociology and a new way of linking the interpretation of culture and the interpretation of society. In his introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Alexander elaborates the new interpretation of Durkheim that informs the contributions. His arguments form a background for the lively and provacative chapters that follow, which provide broadly cultural interpretations of such topics as popular upheavals and social movements, ranging from the French Revolution to the massive rebellions in Poland and Nicaragua in the 1980s; political crisis, from Watergate to the crisis of legitimation in contemporary capitalism; and the creative and contingent element in symbolic behaviour, including the symbolics of intimate friendship, and the ritual and rhetoric of media events. In addition to re-examining Durkheimian sociology, the essays also demolish the myth that attention to cultural values implies conservatism or the inability to analyze social change, and challenge the common antithesis between normative theory and microsociology. Its exploration of the links between Durkheimian sociology and the most important developments in contemporary sociology, history, anthropology and semiotics will ensure it a broad appeal across the social sciences.

Community 101

Author : Robyn Tippins
Publisher : Happy About
ISBN 13 : 1600051537
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community 101 written by Robyn Tippins and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making an online community that grows and survives isn't easy. This guide explains how to create a successful online community that surpasses expectations and provides the benefit of increased business sales and customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Imagined Communities

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168359X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

The Network Nation

Author : Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Publisher : Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Network Nation written by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and published by Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Textbook on future electronic networks, with particular reference to computerized conferenceing - based on present innovations in telecommunications, attempts to forecast new forms of communication, and considers potential information exchange applications (e.g. E-mail, microcomputers, public opinion surveying, etc.), cost benefit analysis and possible social implications, together with data protection aspects and information policy issues. Bibliography pp. 494 to 516, diagrams, flow charts and statistical tables.

Tune In, Log On

Author : Nancy K. Baym
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761916499
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Tune In, Log On written by Nancy K. Baym and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, it shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.

Exploring Religious Community Online

Author : Heidi Campbell
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820471051
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Religious Community Online written by Heidi Campbell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Religious Community Online is the first comprehensive study of the development and implications of online communities for religious groups. This book investigates religious community online by examining how Christian communities have adopted internet technologies, and looks at how these online practices pose new challenges to offline religious community and culture.