Community, Race, and Gender On The Internet

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will produce the issues that need to be addressed as the world continues to globalize and become more homogenized in who uses it for business and social situations. Understanding the gender and race issues regarding the internet will allow solutions to be targeted for the future enhancement of the system(http://www.itcs.com/elawley/gender.html).

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Each day millions of subscribers to various service providers worldwide sign onto their computers and take part in online communities. An online community allows the poster to invent and carry out a persona of self that they have complete control over. The idea of a virtual self, while only recently popular by computer standards and in fact was actually tried by Apple computer in the early 1980's in a program called Communitree(http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/StoneBody.html).

The virtual self that is invented by those who go online is not always related to one's physical self. The self online is more a measure of ...

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Community was created to foster the economic interests of its constituent nations, while the New Age community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, exists around a core of symbolic, quasi-religious interests. Despite these somewhat prosaic conceptions of community, many scholars have debated the constitution of community and its importance within our public culture(http://www.well.com/user/hlr/texts/VCcivil.html)."



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http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/response/kirschenbaum/moore/pomodoc4.html

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