Small Worlds: Normative Behavior in Virtual Communities and Feminist Bookselling.

Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele; Chatman, Elfreda A.

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Publication Date: 2001

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Small Worlds: Normative Behavior in Virtual Communities and Feminist Bookselling.

Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele; Chatman, Elfreda A.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v52 n7 p536-47 May 2001

This essay proposes the theory of normative behavior and presents general discussions of two communities-the online world of virtual communities and the world of feminist booksellers associated with the Women in Print Movement-that can be used as test cases for that theory. (Contains 73 references.) (AEF)

Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Communities, Information Systems, Online Systems, Social Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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