My assigned reading for the presentation is “The virtual community” by Howard Rheingold.
The article can briefly divided into two parts, the first section covered how the author make use of internet, how he interact with the virtual community in his online or offline time, his observation towards the virtual communities, and the potential benefits that the virtual communities can bring to us.
The second part of the article talks about the development of virtual communities. In the beginning there are small number of computers start to form a network for the American Military research institution, then the computer conferencing technology change the way who people communicate. After civilians put a lots of affords to build up the telecom networks, the bulletin-board systems (BBSs) appears and it allows general citizens to make communication through internet. As there are particular number of people formed different kind of virtual discussion BBSs, virtual communities like WELL start to be formed. As the computer technology is improving, virtual community brings revolutionary changes to the way how people communicate to others.
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In my point of view, I think Kelvin done a good job on his presentation. He had analysed Howard Rheingold's passage in detail. He talked about the ideas "Virtual community" stated by the writer, but I think he could elaborate more in some of the point, for example: the writer's internet experience.
ReplyDeleteIn my presentation there some critical terms or ideas in the article i missed. The way how Howard Rheingold view about virtual communities and how he define it should be explain more.
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