Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.
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Introduction - Steven Jones Information, Internet and Community - Steven Jones Notes toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age The Emergence of On-line Community - Nancy K Baym Designing Genres for New Media - Philip E Agre Social, Economic and Political Contexts Feminist Fictions of Future Technology - Cheris Kramarae Text as Mask - Brenda Danet Gender, Play, and Performance on the Internet Dating on the Net - Lynn Schofield Clark Teens and the Rise of 'Pure' Relationships Virtual Ethnicity - Mark Poster Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications Dissolution and Fragmentation - Beth Kolko and Elizabeth Reid Problems in On-line Communities