[Air-l] utopian / dystopian

[Barry Wellman]

REe utopian / dystopian,

Milena Gulia & I do a 4 page riff on that from early in the internet age,
at the front of our "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone" [still my favorite
article title]. It's on my website, and published in Kollock-Smith
_Communities in Cyberspace_ and with some revisions in my edited _Networks
in the Global Village_. Most of the article is an exasperated shout at
comp sci folks who write about "community" online without any realization
that there is a century of relevant scholarly research/lore about how
communities function.

 Barry
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