Electronic Communities in an Information Society: Paradise, Mirage, or Malaise?.

Komito, Lee

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Publication Date: 2001

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Electronic Communities in an Information Society: Paradise, Mirage, or Malaise?

Komito, Lee

Journal of Documentation, v57 n1 p115-29 Jan 2001

Discusses communities in the information society and examines virtual communities and the relation between technology and social life. Topics include interaction; idealized community; proximate communities; normative community; virtual communities and fragmented society; and social change versus technological change. (LRW)

Descriptors: Community, Interaction, Social Change, Social Life

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Language: English

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