Virtual Community Flashcards
What does CMC stand for?
Computer-mediated communication
What is Rheingold’s definition of virtual community?
Cultural groups that emerge when enough people bump into each other often enough in cyberspace.
According to Rheingold, in cyberspace people…
do everything people do when they get together, but it is in this context done with words on computer screens.
(Rheingold) Human communities and interaction in cyberspace
gives rise to important questions about the effects of communication technology on human values and definitions of human and community.
Rheingold questions whether online ‘communities’ are truly communities or simply pseudo-communities
He states: In real life identity and position of the people we communicate with are well known but in cyberspace everybody is in the dark
