| A virtual community is a community of people sharing common
interests, ideas, and feelings over the Internet or other collaborative
networks. A possible inventor of this term and one of its first proponents
was Howard Rheingold, who created one of the first major Internet communities,
called "The Well." In his book, The Virtual Community, Rheingold
defines virtual communities as social aggregations that emerge from the
Internet when enough people carry on public discussions long enough and
with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships in
cyberspace. |
