Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 22:04:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dave Alan Coon (:" <dcoon@ksu.edu>
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Virtual Identities and Communities 
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This is quite similar to what I plan on doing my Master's Thesis on, here 
are two additional URLs. THey refer to the same document, an honors 
thesis done on the IRC as a community (The IRC, Internet Relay Chat) is a 
part of the internet with chat rooms. Maybe we should trt corresponding 
with one another as we find various soucres or URLs.
BTW, do you know of any other printed soucres besides the ones I have 
listed about COMMUNITY and INTERNET? I am aware of Niel Postman's 
"Technopoly", of Mwyrowitz's "No Sense of Place" and Sherry Turkle's two 
books, but are there any other sources I could use other than the URL's 
you listed or than the sources I listed below
We might consider starting a special listeserv just on this topic.
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vircom/index.html
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/papers/emr/

I have a list of sources here:

References

Allen, Christina. 1996.  Virtual Identities:The Social Construction of Cybered 
	Selves. Dissertation. Evanston, Illinois:Northwestern University.

Braddle, 1993. Virtual Communities:Computer-Mediated 				
	Communication and Communities of Association. Dissertation.  	
	Bloomington, Indiana:Indiana University.

Dalaimo, Denise. 1995. The Simulation of Selfhood in Cyberspace.  	
	Master's thesis.  Las Vegas:University of Nevada.

Doheny-Farina, Stephen.1996.  The Wired Neighborhood.   
	New Haven:Yale University Press.

Fischer, Claude. 1977. Networks and Places : Social Relations in the Urban 
	Setting. New York : Free Press.

Fisher, Bonnie, Michael Margolis, and David Resnick. "Breaking Ground on the 
	Virtual Frontier: Surveying Civic Life on the Internet."American 
	Sociologist Summer 1996
 
Giese, Jon. 1996. Place without Space, Identity without Body:The Role of 
	Cooperative Narrative in Community and Identity Formation in a 
	Text-Based Electronic Community. Dissertation. 	
	Altonia, Pennsylvania:Pennsylvania State University.

Gussfield, Joseph. 1975. Community: A Critical Response. 
	New York: Harper and Row.

Hillery, George A. 1955. "Definitions of Community: Areas of 		
	Agreement." Rural Sociology 20:111-123

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Turoff, Murray. 1978. The Network Nation:Human 
	Communication via Computer. Reading, Massachusetts:
	Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (there is also a much 
	newer revised edition, Barry Wellman's notion of community networks is 
	used in this text)

Jones, Steven, ed. 1995.CyberSociety:Computer-Mediated 	Communication and 
	Community. Thousand Oaks, California:SAGE Publications Ltd.

Ludlow, Peter. 1996. High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues 
in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts:MIT Press.

Reid, Elizabeth. 1991. Communication and Community:On Internet 		
	Relay Chat. Honours thesis. Melbourne, Australia:University of 
	Melbourne.

Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community. Reading, 			
	Massachusetts:Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Shields, Rob, ed. 1996. Cultures of Internet:Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, 
	Living Bodies. Thousand Oaks, California:SAGE Publications Ltd.
	(this book is a collection of articles, a few of which are about 
	the USENET, one of them about community on ALT.TV.SOAPS)


Surratt, Carla. 1996. The Sociology of Everyday Life in Computer-Mediated 
	Communities. Arizona:Arizona State University.

Wellman, Barry. 1979. "The Community Question: The Intimate 		
	Networks of East Yonkers."American Journal of Sociology. 84:1201-1231.

Sincerely,

David Coon http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~dcoon 
MA Student & Graduate Teaching Asst.
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work  http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/
Kansas State University