revisiting computer-mediated communication and community /
Steven G. Jones, editor
xvii, 238 pages ;
24 cm
New media cultures
Includes bibliographical references and index
Information, Internet, and community : notes toward an understanding of community in the information age / Steven G. Jones -- The emergence of on-line community / Nancy K. Baym -- Designing genres for new media : social, economic, and political contexts / Philip E. Agre -- Feminist fictions of future technology / Cheris Kramarae -- Text as mask : gender, play, and performance on the Internet / Brenda Danet -- Dating on the net : teens and the rise of "pure" relationships / Lynn Schofield Clark -- Virtual ethnicity : tribal identity in an age of global communications / Mark Poster --Dissolution and fragmentation : problems in on-line communities / Beth Kolko and Elizabeth Reid