virtual communities:
questions, theories, opportunities

mit communications forum

thursday, nov. 6, 1997
4 pm
bartos theater

Amy Bruckman, founder, MediaMOO

Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community

Marc Smith, co-editor, Communities in Cyberspace

Barry Wellman, co-author, Computer Networks as Social Networks

transformations of the book

an international conference on the ways in which digital technologies are transforming traditional literary and humanistic materials october 24-25, 1997
agenda   speakers

This site is an experiment in using the web itself as one element in an investigation of the significance of emerging communications media. The project will include lectures, panel discussions, and a range of virtual events.

A collaboration of the Markle Foundation, the MIT Communications Forum and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, the Media in Transition project hopes to encourage a conversation that crosses intellectual, professional and cultural boundaries -- a citizenly conversation that is historically aware, uncontaminated by jargon, rigorous, accessible.