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Elizabeth Reid, "Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat"
One of the early, seminal works about virtual community, "adapted from an Honours thesis written at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 1991" and the progenitor of several other essays published by Reid.
Yu Ping Hu, "#stuy95: Many Individuals, Two Groups, One Community"
Electronic, Web-based student research paper (for a freshman writing
class at Stanford University taught by the editor of Composing
Cyberspace) about a high-school based Internet Relay Chat channel.
UCLA Center for the Study of Online Communities
"The Center for the Study of Online Community seeks to present and foster studies
that focus on how computers and networks alter people's capacity to form groups,
organizations, institutions, and how those social formations are able to serve the collective
interests of their members."
More virtual community sites
The River
Off-shoot of The WELL.
Electric Minds
Online community started by Howard Rheingold.
Kelly, Netropolitan Life/Virtual Communities
The Palace
Real-time interaction through graphical "avatars" speaking with
dialogue bubbles.
More about religion online
Yahoo! Religion index
More Internet demographic links
InfoQuest! Internet Surveys & Statistics
"These are just some of the surveys and statistical resources about the Internet that are available."
Transparency: Gilded Prisons of Technology
Brief review of "The Machine Stops" along with other fiction about the social implications of modern technologies. "It is the purpose of this web site to make this invented realm of popular culture transparent to our view, so we will better understand our own psychology and resist the manipulations of those who would play on that psychology for their own purposes."
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