Online Community

We'll discuss how online communities are the same as, or different from, "real world" communities. Readings will include Howard Rheingold, Marc Smith, Barry Wellman, and others.

Readings on Online Community

• Kollock, P., and Smith, M. 1999. "Introduction: Communities in Cyberspace." Pp. 3-25 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge Press, 1999.
• Ackerman, M., Huysman, M., Carroll, J. M., Wellman, B., DeMichelis, G., and Wulf, V. 2004. Communities and technologies: an approach to foster social capital?. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 406-408.
• Shirky, C. 2003. A group is its own worst enemy.