Conversation and Community: chat in a virtual world

By Lynn Cherny

Book Overview

Conversation and Community is an examination of the speech community in an Internet 'virtual community'. Based on ethnographic research on a community of users of a MUD, or 'multi-user dimension', the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861542
• ISBN13: 9781575861548
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Experience based analysis

Lynn Cherny has analysed a chat community at the university through envolved participation. Therefore it is valuable. It's for all a linguistic study. There is some analysis of conflict and alienation but this wasn't the main purpose.

Excellent research into the social aspects of MUDs.

First off, I'm a college freshman and a MUDder. I found this book in UNLV's library after looking for a book for my sociology class. I picked it up and flipped through it, and decided to check it out. It was a couple of weeks before I actually sat down and started to read it. I do have to say that Ms. Cherny has masterfully dissected what a social MUDder is. Insightful, Entertaining, and Exact, this book is an excellent read for a MUDder.