Virtual Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charalambos Tsekeris (0000-0002-3304-5331, Panteion University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosv024 |
| OpenAlex | W4238517127 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Following the dramatic loss or decline of real human communities, the highly contentious sociological conception of virtual communities signifies a decisive historic break with material human geography and the subsequent emergence of dynamic net‐based “social aggregations,” electronically grounded, complex networks of interactive social and cultural relations. The advent and rapid growth of Internet bulletin boards, electronic mailing lists, chat rooms, MUDs, MUSHes, MOOs, IRCs, forums, and weblogs (blogs) since the mid‐1990s has triggered radically new and diverse modes of social bonding, friendship, subjectivity, experience, identity formation, and critical political intervention (e.g., cyborg politics
Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Geography · Human interaction · Human–computer interaction · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Social Media and Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |