Communities in cyberspace [electronic resource] / edited by Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock

Title	Communities in cyberspace [electronic resource] / edited by Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock
Imprint	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003
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Descript	xii, 323 p. : ill

CONTENT

Communities in cyberspace / Peter Kollock and Marc A. Smith -- Identity and deception in the virtual community / Judith S. Donath -- Reading race online : discovering racial identity in Usenet discussions / Byron Burkhalter -- Writing in the body : gender (re)production in online interaction / Jodi O'Brien -- Hierarchy and power : social control in cyberspace / Elizabeth Reid -- Problems of conflict management in virtual communities / Anna DuVal Smith -- Virtual communities as communities : net surfers don't ride alone / Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia -- Invisible crowds in cyberspace : mapping the social structure of the Usenet / Marc A. Smith -- Economies of online cooperation : gifts and public goods in cyberspace / Peter Kollock -- Promise and the peril of social action in cyberspace : ethos, delivery, and the protests over MarketPlace and the Clipper chip / Laura J. Gurak -- Electronic homesteading on the rural frontier : Big Sky Telegraph and its community / Willard Uncapher -- Cyberspace and disadvantaged communities : the Internet as a tool for collective action / Christopher Mele

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