The Virtual Community

The Virtual Community

"The Virtual Community" is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The Well. A second edition, with a new concluding chapter was published in 2000 by MIT Press.

External links

* [http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html The Virtual Community] (Text of book on the author's site)


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