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Virtual Communities

Our finest selection of links to online gathering places keeps you up to date about virtual communities.

19.04.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

The homepage of Howard Rheingold, a famous Internet pioneer and theorist.

The WELL, the world’s first and most famous virtual community. Calls itself a gathering place and literate watering hole for artists, journalists, programmers, educators and activists.

Research project of the University of Vienna on the potential of MUDs for integration.

The Virtual town of Münster, one of the most advanced local community sites, offering information to all kinds of governmental and civil organizations, groups and associations in Münster. A similar site is the Blacksburg Electronic Village a community in Virginia.

“Construction and reconstruction of the self in Virtual Reality”: Playing in the MUDs” by Sherry Turkle, MIT.