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Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Internet --- Computer networks --- Virtual reality. --- Environments, Virtual --- Virtual environments --- Virtual worlds --- Computer simulation --- Reality --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Telematics --- Social aspects.

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Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. Contributors to this volume explore this question by drawing on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies, and personal experience with virtual communities. Each chapter discusses the different meanings of the terms community, learning, and change. Case studies are included for further clarification. Together, these chapters describe the building out of virtual communities in terms that are relevant to theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The chapters provide a basis for thinking about the dynamics of Internet community building. This includes consideration of the role of the self or individual as a participant in virtual community, and the design and refinement of technology as the conduit for extending and enhancing the possibilities of community building in cyberspace. Building Virtual Communities will interest educators, psychologists, sociologists, and researchers in human-computer interaction.

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Covering everything from getting to know a library's materials to marketing and promoting RA, this practical handbook will help you expand services immediately without adding costs or training time.

Readers' advisory services. --- Readers' advisory services --- Libraries and community --- Libraries and the Internet. --- Community information services --- Public libraries --- Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Referral centers (Information services) --- Reference services (Libraries) --- Information services --- Internet and libraries --- Internet --- Information referral centers --- Referral services for information --- Information networks --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Computer networks --- Telematics --- Reference services.

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Rural development --- Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Social Conditions --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Computer networks --- Telematics --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Electronic information resources --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects

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Networks and computer-mediated communication now penetrate the spaces of everyday life at a fundamental level. We communicate, work, bank, date, check the weather, and fuel conspiracy theories online. In each instance, users interact with network technology as much more than a computational device. 'Cyberspaces of Everyday Life' provides a critical framework for understanding how the Internet takes part in the production of social space. Mark Nunes draws on the spatial analysis work of Henri Lefebvre to make sense of cyberspace as a social product. Looking at online education, he explores the ways in which the Internet restructures the university. Nunes also examines social uses of the World Wide Web and illustrates the ways online communication alters the relation between the global and the local. He also applies Deleuzian theory to emphasize computer-mediated communications' performative elements of spatial production. Addressing the social and cultural implications of spam and anti-spam legislation, as well as how the burst Internet stock bubble and the Patriot Act have affected the relationship between networked spaces and daily living, 'Cyberspaces of Everyday Life' sheds new light on the question of virtual space and its role in the offline world. Mark Nunes is associate professor and chair of the humanities department at Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus.

Cyberspace. --- Electronic villages (Computer networks). --- Social networks. --- Telematics. --- Cyberspace --- Electronic villages (Computer networks) --- Social networks --- Telematics --- 82:62 --- 82:659.3 --- 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- 82:62 Literatuur en technologie --- Literatuur en technologie --- CMC systems --- Computer-mediated communication --- Telecommunication --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Communets (Computer networks) --- Community networks (Computer networks) --- Free nets (Computer networks) --- Freenets (Computer networks) --- Freespaces (Computer networks) --- Computer networks --- Space and time --- Computers