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Week 7: Social effects: 'cybersociety' and virtual communitiesYou need to be familiar with at least two of the following communication
networks:
IRC
ICQ
MUDS/MOOS
Active Worlds (or any graphic avatar environment)
The Well
Nettime
Chat rooms
Bulletin boards
News Groups
Core Reading
o Cherny, Lynn and Weise, Elizabeth Reba. Wired Women: Gender and New
Realities in Cyberspace. Washington: Seal Press. 1996 (Section 2: Communities
of Interest)
o Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford: Blackwell,
1996, (Chapter 4)
o M.A. Smith and P. Kollock, Communities in Cyberspace, Routledge,
1999
o Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic
Frontier, London: Secker & Warburg, 1994, full text online at http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book
Supplementary Reading
o Steven G. Jones, Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and
Community, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.
o David Brown, Cybertrends: Chaos, Power and Accountability in the
Information Age, London: Viking, 1997.
o Bassett, Caroline. Virtually Gendered in Gelder, K and Thornton,
S (eds.) The Subcultures Reader. London: Routledge, 1997.
o Baym, Nancy. Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, And Online Community.
Thousand Oaks, London; Sage, 2000.
o Kendall, Lori. Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinites Online.
Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002.
Two key European reports document the debate over whether the development of the 'Information Society' should be guided by the market or by public intervention:
o High-Level Group on the Information Society [Chairman Martin Bangemann],
Europe and the Global Information Society, Brussels: CEC, 1994 online at
http://www.medicif.org/Dig_library/ECdocs/reports/Bangemann.htm
o High Level Group of Experts [of the European Commission], Building
the European Information Society for us all, online at http://www.cvut.cz/ascii/cc/icsc/NII/forum/Building.html
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