Books on Virtual Communities

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• Anderson, Chris (2006). The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Hyperion. ISBN 1-4013-0237-8. (see http://www.thelongtail.com )

• Barabasi, A. L. (2003). Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life. New York: Plume.

• Barak, A. (Ed.)(2008). Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. see: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521694643

• Barnes, S., (2002). Computer-Mediated Communication: Human-to-Human Communication Across the Internet.

• Baron, Naomi S. (2008) Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, Oxford University Press, USA.

• Baym, Nancy K., (2000). Tune in, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Bell, David, and Barbara M. Kennedy, (eds). (2000). The Cybercultures Reader. Routledge.

• Beisswenger, Michael (Ed.), (2001). Chat-Kommunikation. Sprache, Interaktion, Sozialität & Identität in synchroner computervermittelter Kommunikation. Perspektiven auf ein interdisziplinares Forschungsfeld. Stuttgart. ibidem 2001. See http://www.chat-kommunikation.de/

• Benedikt, Michael, ed. (1991). Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• Benkler, Yochai (2007) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, Online version of the book, Wiki and blog:http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page

• Birenbaum, Michael H., (2000). Psychological Experiments on the Internet, San Diego: Academic Press.

• Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard., (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media Cambridge. Masschusetts, MIT.

• Borgman, Christine (2007) Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, MIT Press.

• Borsook, Pauline., (2001). Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech. Public Affairs; ISBN: 1586480383

• Burdman, Jessica R., (1999). Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams. Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201433311

• Cailliau, Robert and Gillies, James., (2000). How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web. Oxford University Press.

• Carr, Nicholas (2008) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, Norton (see http://www.roughtype.com/ Carr's blog)

• Cherny, Lynn, and Elizabeth Reba Weise, eds., (1996). Wired Women : Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Washington: Seal Press.

• Cohill, A. and Kavanaugh, A. (eds.)., (1997). Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia. Boston: Artech House.

• Council of Europe (2008) Handbook of Internet Literacy, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/StandardSetting/InternetLiteracy/InternetLiteracyHandbook_en.asp#P539_30456

• Coyne, Richard., (1995). Designing Information Technology in the Postmdern Age:From Method to Metaphor. Cambridge, MA:MIT Press

• Coyne, Richard., (1999). Technoromanticism: digital narrative, holism and the romance of the real. Cambridge, MA:MIT Press

• Crystal, David., (2002). Language and the Internet. Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0521802121

• Damer, B., (1998). Avatars! Exploring and building virtual worlds on the Internet, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA.

• Deibert, Ronald J., (1997). Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia : Communication in World Order Transformation, New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

• Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain, eds. (2008), Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, (Cambridge: MIT Press) 2008.

• Dunbar, (1996). Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language , Faber & Faber.

• Edwards, Paul N., (1996). The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Engelbart, Douglas C., Stanford Research Institute, and United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research. (1962). Augmenting Human Intellect; a Conceptual Framework. Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute.

• Ess, Charles. (1996). Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

• Featherstone, Mike, and Rober Burrows, eds. (1995). Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment. London: Sage

• Gackenbach, Jayne, ed. (1998). Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications. San Diego: Academic Press.

• Gauntlett, David. (2000). Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age. London/New York: Edward Arnold; Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press.

• Dan Gillmor., (2004). We the Media:Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People O'Reilly, July 2004. Online version available: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp

• Grether's 3600 Research Essays about the Net

• Gurak, Laura J. (1999). Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace. The Online Protests over Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Gurak, Laura J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness. New Haven: Yale Univ Press.

• Hadden, J.K., and Douglas E. Cown, eds. (2000). Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. JAI-Elsevier Science

• Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. (1998). Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone

• Hafner, Katie, (2001). The Well: A story of love, death & real life in the seminal online community. New York: Carrol and Graf.

• Hagel John and Armstrong Arthur G. (1997) Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities . Harvard Business School Press.

• Hamburger, Yair Amichai (Ed.) (2005, in press) The social net: The social psychology of the Internet. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

• Harasim, Linda M., ed. (1993). Global Networks: Computers and International Communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

• Harcourt, Wendy, ed. (1999). Women@Internet : Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London: Zed Books.

• Hauben, Michael, and Rhonda Hauben. (1997). Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Washington: IEEE Computer Society Press.

• Heim, Michael. (1987). Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

• Herring, Susan C., ed. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamin.

• Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds. (2001). Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage.

• Hiltz, Starr Roxanne., (1985). Online communities: A case study of the office of the future. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

• Hiltz, S.R. and M. Turoff, (1978). The network nation: Human communication via computer, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc, London.

• Hine, Christine. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage.

• Holeton, Richard. (1998). Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

• Holtzman, Steven R., (1998). Digital Mosaics : The Aesthetics of Cyberspace. Touchstone.

• Innis, H.A., (1964). The bias of communication, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

• Innis, H.A., (1972). Empire and communications, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

• Jenkins, Henry (2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, NYU Press

• Johnson, Deborah. (2000). Computer Ethics, 3rd ed Prentice Hall.

• Johnson, Steven (2001). Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, New York Scribner.

• Adam N. Joinson, (2003). Understanding the Psychology of Internet Behaviour: Virtual Worlds, Real Lives.

• Jones, S., (ed.). (1995). CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Sage Publications.

• Jones, S., (1997). Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Sage Publications.

• Jones, S. E., (1999). Doing Internet Research. Critical issues and methods for examining the net. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

• Jones, Steven G., (ed.) (2000). Cybersociety 2.0: Revising Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage.

• Jordan, Tim., (1999). Cyberpower: The Culture & Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet

• Kahin, B., and Nesson, C. (eds.). (1997). Borders in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

• Katz, James and Rice, Ron., (2002). Social Consequences of Internet Use, The MIT Press; ISBN: 0262112698

• Keen, Andrew (2007) The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture, Currency. See http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/AAYH7QOBDOK4Z/ref=cm_blog_dp_artist_blog (Keen's Amazon blog)

• Kevin Kelly,(1994). Out of Control (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley)

• Kerr, E.B. and S.R. Hiltz, (1982). Computer-mediated communications systems: Status and evolution, Academic Press, New York.

• Kiesler, S. E., (1997). Culture of the Internet. Mahwah: NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.

• Kling, Rob, ed. (1996). Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. San Diego: Academic Press.

• Krug, Steve & Black, Roger, (2001). Don't Make Me Think: Common Sense Approach to Web Usability Que; ISBN: 0789723107

• Laurel, Brenda, (1991). Computers as Theatre Reading, Massachusetts:Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

• Lessig, Lawrence, (2000). Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Basic Books; ISBN: 0465039138

• Lessig, Lawrence, (2002). The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World Random House; ISBN: 0375505784

• Ling, Rich (2008) New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion, MIT Press, NY.

• Ling, Rich (2004), The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society (Interactive Technologies), Morgan Kaufman

• Ludlow, P. (Ed.). (1996). High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

• Mann, Chris, and Fiona Stewart. (2000). Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online. London: Sage

• Markham, Annette N., (1998). Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

• Mayer, Paul A., (ed.), (1999). Computer Media and Communication: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Mehrabian, A., (1976). Public places and private spaces: the psychology of work, play and living environments, Basic Books, New York.

• McLuhan, M.H., (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man, McGraw-Hill, New York:.

• Meyrowitz, Joshua, (1985). No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, New York.

• Minar, D.W. and S. Greer, (1969). The Concept of Community, Aldine Atherton, Chicago.

• Morse, Margaret, (1998). Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberspace. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

• Myerson, George, Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone (2001).

• Nelson, Theodore, (1987). Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Washington: Microsoft Press.

• Norris, Pippa, (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

• Oldenburg, Ray, (1991). The great good place: Cafיs, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts and how they get you through the day. New York: Paragon.

• Ong, Walter J., (1982) Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, London: Routledge.

• Ong, W., (1982). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the world, Methuen, New York

• Oram, Andrew and Minar, Nelson, (2001). Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies. O'Reilly & Associates.

• Packer, Randall & Ken Jordan, (eds.), (2001). Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality.

• Paul A. Mayer, (1999). Computer Media and Communication, A Reader, Oxford University Press. TOC available here: http://www.oup-usa.org/toc/tc_0198742576.html (includes articles by V. Bush, Turing, Licklider, Jensen, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, Bolter, Miles, Herring, Jones).

• Porter, D., (1997). Internet Culture. New York: Routledge.

• Pesce, M., (2000). The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination.Ballantine.

• Powers, M., (1997). How to program a virtual community, Ziff-Davis Press, Emeryville CA.

• Preece, J., (2000). Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. New York: John Wiley & Sons. See also the Online communities web site, at http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities/

• Raymond, E., (1997). The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.

• Rheingold, H., (1993). The Virtual Community. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing. [1]

• Rheingold, H., (2000). Tools for Thought. Cambridge: MIT Press.

• Rheingold, H., (2002). SmartMobs: The Next Social Revolution.

• Rosenfeld, Louis & Moreville, Peter, (1998). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565922824

• Schuler, D., (1996). New Community Networks: Wired for Change. New York: ACM Press.

• Seiter, E. (2005). The internet playground: Children's access, entertainment, and mis-education. New-York: Peter Lang

• Shapiro, C., Varian H.R. (1998). Information rules: a strategic guide to the network

economy. http://www.inforules.com/

• Shenk, D., (1997). 'Data smog - Surviving the information glut, HarperCollins, New York.

• Shields, Rob, (ed.), (1996). Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. London: Sage.

• Shirky, Clay (2008) Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations , Penguin Press. http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/

• Siegel, Lee (2008) Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Spiegel and Grau, New York.

• Silver, D., (1999). "Localizing the Global Village: Lessons from the Blacksburg Electronic Village," in Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick, (eds.) The Global Village: Dead or Alive?. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 79-92.

• Smith, Douglas K., and Robert C. Alexander., (1988). Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

• Smith Marc and Kollock Peter, (editors)., (1999). Communities in Cyberspace . London: Routledge. TOC available http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/communities_00.htm (includes articles of interest by Smith and Kollock, Barry Wellman and Gulia, Elizabeth Reid, Mele (on disadvantaged)

• Sproull, L., and Kiesler, S. (1990) Connections: New ways of working in the networked organization. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

• Standage, Tom., (1998). The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's on-Line Pioneers. New York: Walker.

• Stefik, Mark, ed., (1997). Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Stone, Allucquere Rosanne, (1996). The War of Desire and Technology At the Close of the Mechanical Age, MIT Press, London.

• Sudweeks, F., McLaughlin, M., and Rafaeli, S. (eds.). (1998). Network & Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

• Suler, John. The Psychology of Cyberspace. Online book: http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

• Sunstein, Cass. (2001). Republic.com. Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691070253

• Swiss, Thomas, ed. (2001). Unspun : Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web. New York: New York University Press.

• Trend, David. (2001). Reading Digital Culture. London: Blackwells (includes articles by V. Bush, Gibson, Landow, Heim, Zuboff, Turkle, Aronowitz, Castells, Schiller, Nakamura, Rheingold, Ronell)

• Turkle, S., (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.

• Vitanza, Victor J., (ed.) 1999. Cyberreader. 2 ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

• Wallace, Patricia. (1999). The Psychology of the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Wellman, Barry and Milena Gulia. (1999) "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities" in Communities in Cyberspace (Ed.) Peter Kollock and Marc Smith. New York: Routledge.

• Wellman, Barry and Haythornthwaite, Caroline, (2003). The Internet in Everyday Life. Blackwell Publishers; ISBN: 0631235086

• Weinberger, David (2007) Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Times Books. Blog here: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/

• Wenger, Etienne, (1999). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521663636; 0 edition (December 1, 1999)

• Wenger, Etienne, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder, (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice, Harvard Business School Pr; ISBN: 1578513308; 1st edition (March 15, 2002)

• Werry, Chris, and Miranda Mowbray, (eds.), (2001). Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University. Prentice Hall.

• Winston, Brian., (1998). Media Technology & Society: A History from the Telegraph to the Internet. London: Routledge.

• Wood, A.F. and Smith, M.J., (2001). Online Communication : Linking Technology, Identity, and Culture. New York: Lea.

• Wright, Alex (2007) Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages, Joseph Henry Press.

• Zittrain, Jonathan (2008) The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It, Yale University Press.