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Social Processes: Community Bibliography

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Babbie, E. 1996. “We Am a Virtual Community.” American Sociologist

Spring:65-71. Turkle, S. 1995. Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Turkle, S. 1995. Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet. New York:

Simon & Schuster.

Turkle discusses how the Internet allows for the construction and reconstructionof identity in a “culture of simulation.”

Wiemker, Markus. 1998. Cyberpunks: A sociological analysis with special interest in

the description of their online activities. Cybersociology: Open Topic.
Online Dec. 1,2004. http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/4/4cyberpunk.htm.

The author describes a new type of individual, the cyberpunk, whose identity arises from interacting with the Internet. Cybersociology is a non-profit multi-disciplinary webzine dedicated to the critical discussion of the internet, cyberspace, cyberculture, and life online. Authors include students, professors, published writers, and experts within their fields.

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