Virtual Communities

Rheingold, Howard
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
Rheingold's Brainstorms

Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith, 1999 Communities in Cyberspace London: Routledge

• Wellman Barry Net surfers don't ride alone: virtual community as community
  www.acm.org/ccp/references/wellman/wellman.html
  
• Donnath, Judith S. Identity and deception in the virtual community.
  http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html
  
  
• Reid, Elizabeth Hierarchy and power. Social control in cyberspace
  
  
• Kollock, Peter The economies of online cooperation: gifts and public goods in cyberspace http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/economies.htm

Turkle, Sherry 1996 Virtuality and its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace.
Chapter from Life on the Screen, reprinted in The American Prospect Online
http://www.prospect.org/archives/24/24turk.html

Turkle, Sherry 1994 Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality: Playing in the MUDs
http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/recentpublication.html

Cybersociology Special Issue on Virtual Communities (Issue 2)
http://members.aol.com/Cybersoc/issue2.html

• Introduction to Virtual Communities Research (Robin Hamman)
• Seniors and the Internet (Joyce Philbeck)
• IRC on AustNet - an example of a virtual community (Cyberrdewd)
• QUAKE-ING IN MY BOOTS: <EXAMINING> >CLAN:COMMUNITY< CONSTRUCTION IN AN ONLINE GAMER POPULATION (Mary-Anne Breeze)

Paolillo, John 1999 The Virtual Speech Community: Social Network and Language Variation on IRC
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4(4)
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/paolillo.html

C. Ess and F. Sudweeks (eds). Proceedings Cultural Attitudes Towards Communication and Technology ’98,
University of Sydney, Australia, 1-17.
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html
 

Weinreich, Frank 1997 Establishing a point of view toward virtual communities.
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 4(2)
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/feb/wein.html

Mitra, Ananda 2000 Characteristics of the WWW Text: Tracing Discursive Strategies
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4(4)
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol5/issue1/mitra.html
(The title of this article is misleading. It is actual about the development of Internet contacts among East Indians in the diaspora)

Bastian, Misty Nationalism in a Virtual Space: Immigrant Nigerians on the Internet
http://www.westafricareview.com/war/vol1.1/bastian.html

Web Lab's Small Group Dialogue Technique: A Different Approach to Online Dialogue
http://www.weblab.org/sgd/

Schwimmer, B.E. 1998 Rationale and Romance in the Anthropology of Cyberspace
Paper presented at the CASCA/AES Annual Conference University of Toronto, May 10, 1998
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/cyberanthropology/paper.html