The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

Rheingold, Howard · Addison-Wesley, Reading MA (1993)

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First serious framing of online polities as real communities with norms, sanctions, mutual aid. Pre-web. Cited in Dossier 09 §06 as the modest, honest community-layer ancestor — no nationhood claim.

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