EFF "Net Culture - Virtual Community" Archive

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child_safety_online.booklet

An article on "child safety on the digital highway."

community_nets_evolution.paper

A paper on the evolution of community networking, presented at the Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age symposium - Waterloo, Canada, 1994.

community_networks.article

An article on the metaphors of the information infrastructure, and the communities using that "information superhighway."

japan_online.article

A WIRED article on wiring Japan.

jon_postel.eulogies

Short eulogies (by Vint Cerf and Dave Farber) to Jon Postel, the principal engineer of Internet protocol verification and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Jon died, on the eve of big changes to the Internet Domain Naming System's administration, in Oct. 1998.

net_protection.article

Analysis of the notion of "protecting" the Internet.

netizen.paper

One description of what it means to be a "Netizen."

networking_on_the_network.paper

Understanding what it takes to make and maintain contacts on the Internet.

online_community.paper

Suggestions for building the on-line community.

online_love.article

Sex, gender, and relationships in cyberspace.

plato_history.article

A description of the manner in which the PLATO system of the '60s created a computer-based community.

prodigy_gaffin.article

Questions about the future of Prodigy.

slice_of_life.article

One writer's experience in a virtual community.

tele-community_conf.summary

Telluride's Infozone conference.

virtual_culture.article

Exploring the concept of "individual culture" within the notion of a "mediated society."

well_figallo.article

The WELL, and its association with the term "on-line community."

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