pervasive virtual communities are online communities operating under social networking services. Howard Rheingold discussed virtual communities in his book...

An online community of practice (OCoP), also known as a virtual community of practice (VCoP), is a community of practice (CoP) that is developed and maintained...

up virtual community in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A virtual community is an online social network. It may also refer to: Online community, whose...

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about virtual communities. Usenet, one of the original decentralized, distributed discussion group architectures...

The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The WELL. A second edition, with...

national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. In terms of sociological categories, a community can seem like a sub-set of a social...

WELL or The Well, is a virtual community founded in 1985. It is one of the oldest continuously operating virtual communities. By 1993 it had 7,000 members...

members of a specific virtual community as part of a virtual economy. In 2014, the European Banking Authority defined virtual currency as "a digital...

Second Life is a multiplayer virtual world that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content...

Look up virtual in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Virtual may refer to: Virtual image, an apparent image of an object (as opposed to a real object)...

A virtual world (also called a virtual space or spaces) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create...

The Virtual Universe Community or VUC is the internal IBM interest group for Virtual Worlds. Every IBMer that is present within any Virtual World or Virtual...

online communities through video games, blogs, and virtual worlds, and could potentially meet new significant others in dating sites or dating virtual worlds...

A virtual scientific community is a group of people, often researchers and students, who share multiple resources related to the scientific field, and...

harassed by a large number of people. The term is associated with the virtual community formed by people who consider themselves "targeted individuals" ("T...

co-located. They can form a virtual community of practice (VCoP) where the CoP is primarily located in an online community such as a discussion board,...

Pro graduation master's thesis with the topic "Virtual gift - Trading gifts in BatMUD virtual community" in cultural anthropology for the University of...

'e/em/eir' are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promoted on the virtual community LambdaMOO based on pronouns used in a book by American mathematician...

Cooperatives Lists of virtual communities: Benchmark virtual communities Additional virtual community listings The world community: Note to dialup users:...

reproduce. Virtual pet sites are usually free to play for all who sign up. They can be accessed through web browsers and often include a virtual community, such...

that computer usage has spread, the use of virtual communities have grown. Rheingold defines virtual communities as "social aggregations that emerge from...

is a list of notable active virtual communities with more than 1 million registered members. List of virtual communities List of social platforms with...

authority, self-selective recruitment and retention of members in virtual communities: The case of Wikipedia Archived 8 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine"...

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world...

A virtual airline (VA) is a dedicated hobby organization that uses flight simulation to model the operations of an airline. Virtual airlines generally...

developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community". The US Department of Treasury in 2013 defined it more tersely as...

environment or virtual communities, in lieu of a physical classroom. "The focus is shifted to the education transaction in the form of a virtual community of learners...

modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities. Rheingold was born on July 7, 1947, in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated...

system, such as a bulletin board system (BBS) or an online service virtual community. The phrase may also be used to refer to administrators of other Internet-based...

This is a timeline of events in the history of the virtual community LiveJournal. March 18, 1999 — LiveJournal starts (first entry ever: [1], however...