The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
by Howard Rheingold
Publisher: Perseus Books 1993
ISBN/ASIN: 0201608707
ISBN-13: 9780201608700
Number of pages: 325
Description:
Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's behavior in cyberspace.
Download or read it online for free here:
Read online
(online html)
Similar books
Google Guide: Making Searching Even Easierby Nancy Blachman - GoogleGuide.com
In this tutorial you can learn how to select terms and search effectively; How Google interprets your query; What's included with your results; How to search using special tools and shortcuts; What to do when you can't find the answer you want; etc.
(12215 views)
The Future of the Internetby Jonathan Zittrain - Yale University Press
The book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. The generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation.
(13960 views)
Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Researchby Kurtis Toppert, Walter Seager (eds) - Penny Hill Press
The Internet -- in all its glory of information and misinformation -- is for all practical purposes limitless, which of course means we can never know it all, see it all, understand it all, or even imagine all it is and will be.
(7528 views)
The Music Internet Untangledby Andy Breeding - Giant Path Publishing
A primer on the different types of online music services and how to use them for music discovery. Though somewhat dated, the fundamentals haven't changed. The chapters on the types of services and music information on the net have remained relevant.
(18326 views)