Virtual communities
Subtitle: bowling alone, online together
By: Felicia Wu Song.
Series: Digital formations -- v. 54
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781433103957; 9781433103964
Subjects: Online social networks; Internet -- Social aspects; Communities -- Philosophy; Computers and civilization; Information technology -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The virtual community; title: A high-stakes battle : the context of virtual communities; title: A cultural topography of virtual communities : the rough terrain of autonomy and control; title: An alternative framework for understanding virtual communities; title: The institutional landscape : the market of virtual communities; title: The evolving landscape of virtual communities; title: Technology, the self, and the market : eyeing the horizons of a brave new democracy; title: Epilogue.