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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861550
• ISBN13: 9781575861555
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
• Length: 369 Pages

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.