Book contents
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Facebook
- 3 Virtual Worlds
- 4 Open-Source Software
- 5 Wikis
- 6 Citizen Social Science
- 7 Digital Government
- 8 Cultural Science
- Notes
- Index
- Series page
3 - Virtual Worlds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2020
Book contents
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- The Social Structure of Online Communities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Facebook
- 3 Virtual Worlds
- 4 Open-Source Software
- 5 Wikis
- 6 Citizen Social Science
- 7 Digital Government
- 8 Cultural Science
- Notes
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Some online communities are significantly independent from the families and towns in the so-called “real world,” and they are often called virtual worlds. The following chapter will consider one in which the users create almost everything, and little in the way of cultural assumptions is imposed upon them.
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- The Social Structure of Online Communities , pp. 62 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020