The virtual community : homesteading on the electronic frontier / Howard Rheingold.
The technology news is filled with money as corporate moguls from Hollywood, the cable business, the computer industry, and the telephone companies scramble to exploit America's much ballyhooed "Electronic Superhighway". Suddenly, the interlinked network for computerized communication...
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Reading, Mass. :
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co,
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. The Heart of the WELL
- Ch. 2. Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place
- Ch. 3. Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net
- Ch. 4. Grassroots Groupminds
- Ch. 5. Multi-User Dungeons and Alternate Identities
- Ch. 6. Real-time Tribes
- Ch. 7. Japan and the Net
- Ch. 8. Telematique and Messageries Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual Communities
- Ch. 9. Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists
- Ch. 10. Disinformacracy
- Bibliography
- Index.