Information about Daniel Pargman's Ph.D. thesis on the social and technical aspects of managing a virtual community, a study of a Swedish MUD. Sample chapters in PDF format. http://esplanaden.lysator.liu.se/svmud/pargman/
Aims to develop a social information infrastructure and create a new lifestyle for interpersonal communication via the Internet. http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/csl/
"Realizing that communication and information are increasingly dependent on networked digital information, community activists all over the world are developing community computer network systems." http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/
Article by lawyer Ivan Hoffman discussing membership agreements and resolving issues that arise from them. Applicable only to U.S. Law. http://www.ivanhoffman.com/membership.html
Online book by Fay Sudweeks et al. Addresses the mutual influences between information technology and group information and development. Discusses network norms and experiences and the essential nature of network communications. http://www.aaai.org/Press/Books/Sudweeks/sudweeks.html
Early academic paper studying the human interaction within an online community. The author observed antinomy, atomisation, carnival, decentralization, disembodiment, impersonality, intensification and lurking. http://www.helsinki.fi/science/optek/1997/n1/davis.txt
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