Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (editors).
1999. London: Routledge.Communities in Cyberspace is devoted to exploring new forms of social organization and the changing concepts of community as social groups develop within computer networks. Contributors examine changes in the nature of personal identity, social organization and the connections between real-world communities and their extensions in cyberspace.
I Introduction
[1] Communities in Cyberspace
Peter Kollock (UCLA, Sociology) and Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Sociology)
II Identity
[2] Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community
Judith S. Donath (MIT, The Media Laboratory)
[3] Reading Race Online: Discovering Racial Identity in Usenet Discussions
Byron Burkhalter (UCLA, Sociology)
[4] Writing in the Body: Gender (Re)Production in Cyber Interactions
Jodi O'Brien (Seattle University, Sociology)
III Social Order and Control
[5] Hierarchy and Power: Social Control in Cyberspace
Elizabeth Reid (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Communications)
[6] Problems of Conflict Management in Virtual Communities
Anna DuVal Smith (Case Western Reserve University, School of Management)
IV Community Structure and Dynamics
[7] Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities
Barry Wellman & Milena Gulia (University of Toronto, Sociology)
[8] Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace: Measuring and Mapping the USENET
Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Sociology)
[9] The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace
Peter Kollock (UCLA, Sociology)
V Collective Action
[10] The Promise and the Peril of Social Action in Cyberspace: Ethos, Delivery, and the Protests over MarketPlace and the Clipper Chip
Laura J. Gurak (University of Minnesota, Rhetoric)
[11] Electronic Homesteading on the Rural Frontier: Big Sky Telegraph and its Community
Willard Uncapher (University of Texas at Austin, Communications).
[12] Cyberspace and Disadvantaged Communities: The Internet as a Tool for Collective Action
Christopher Mele (State University of New York at Buffalo, Sociology)
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