Communities in Cyberspace

ISBN-13: 9780415191395 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 336 str.

Marc Smith; Peter Kollock; Ian Heywood

Opis

This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyzes its relationship to the real one as lived out in today's societies. Such issues as race, gender, power, economics and ethics in cyberspace are discussed by the leading experts on the subject of the Internet, grouped under four main sections: identity; social order and control; community structure and dynamics; and collective action. The book displays how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the increasing power and range of cyberspace. As new societies and relationships are formed in this virtual landscape, we are now having to consider the potential consequences this might have on our own community and societies.

O autorze

Peter Kollock, Marc Smith