Communications of the ACM
Ethics of Internet research: Contesting thehuman subjects research model
Ethics and Information Technology
Fuzzy boundaries, strange negotiations: problems of space, place and identity in cyberspace
Managing web usage in the workplace
Online communities: focusing on sociability and usability
The human-computer interaction handbook
Making internet communities work: reflections on an unusual business model
ACM SIGMIS Database
Student communication challenges in distributed software engineering environments
ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Reflexivity in e-science: virtual communities and research institutions
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin - Special issue on virtual communities
Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice
International Journal of Web Based Communities
International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
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From the Publisher:Alienating for some, yet most intimate and real for others, emerging communications technologies are creating a varied array of cyberspace experiences. Nowhere are the new and old more intertwined, as familiar narratives of the past and radical visions of the future inform our attempts to assess the impact of cyberspace on self and society. Amid the dizzying pace of technological innovation, Annette N. Markham embarks on a unique, ethnographic approach to understanding Internet users by immersing herself in online reality. The result is an engrossing narrative as well as a theoretically engaging journey. A cast of characters, the self-reflexive author among them, emerge from Markham's interviews and research to depict the complexity and diversity of Internet realities.While cyberspace is hyped as a disembodied cultural arena where physical reality can be transcended, Markham finds that to understand how people experience the Internet, she must learn how to be embodied there--a process of acculturation and immersion which is not so different from other anthropological projects of cross-cultural understanding. Both new and not-so-new, cyberspace provides a context in which we can ask new sorts of questions about all cultural experience.