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± reading list

Agres, C., D. Edberg, and M. Igbaria. "Transformations to Virtual Societies: Forces and Issues."The Information Society 14, no. 2 (1998): 71-82

Amara, Roy, John Smith, Murray Turoff, and Jacques Valee. "Computerized Conferencing, a New Medium." Mosaic (National Science Foundation) (January-February 1976).
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Bentham, Jeremy. Works vol. 4. Edited by J. Bowring. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843.

Blanchard, A. and T. Horan. "Virtual Communities and Social Capital." Social Science Computer Review 16, no. 3 (1998): 293-307.

Bordia, P. "Face-to-face Versus Computer -Mediated Communication: A Synthesis of the Experimental Literature." The Journal of Business Communication 34, no. 1 (1997): 99-120.

Brignall, Wells. "The Internet as a Tool for a Community: Virtual Citizens in the New Technocracy." Society for the Study of Social Problems (1999).

Cerulo, Karen A. "Reframing Social Concepts for a Brave New (Virtual) World." Sociological Inquiry 67, no. 1 (1997): 48-58.

Figallo, Cliff. Hosting Web Communities: Building Relationships, Increasing Customer Loyalty, and Maintaining a Competitive Edge. Somerset, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Gergen, Kenneth J. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

Habermas, Jurgen. Extensive discussion on the public sphere was published in Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit (Neuwid, 1962). A discussion of the book, translated into English, appeared in New German Critique no. 3 (Fall 1974): 45-55.

Hampton, K. N. and B. Wellman. "Netville Online and Offline: Observing and Surveying a Wired Suburb." American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (1999): 475-492.

Harmon, Amy. "Researchers Find Sad, Lonely World in Cyberspace." New York Times, August 30, 1998.

Jones, Steven G., ed., Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community (New Media Cultures, V. 2). New York: Sage, 1998.

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of the Community, 3d edition. New York: Marlowe & Co., 1999.

Putnam, Robert. "Bowling Alone; America's Declining Social Capital." Journal of Democracy 6, no. 1 (January 1995): 65-78.

Smith, M.A., and P. Kollock. "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities." American Sociological Assn. (1994).

Spears, R., and M. Lea. "Panacea or Panopticon? The Hidden Power in Computer-Mediated Communication." Communication Research 21, no. 4 (1994): 427-459.

Sudweeks, F., M.L. McLaughlin, and S. Rafaeli. Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Turkle, Sherry. "Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace." The American Prospect 24 (1996): 50-57.

Wellman, B. and M. Gulia. Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Community as Community. Pp. 331-67 in Networks in the global Village, edited by B. Wellman. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999.

Wellman, B., et al. "Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community." Annual Review of Sociology 22 (1996): 213-238.

 

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