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The Whole Earth Catalog and the WELL — Craigslist and Facebook Before Time

Readings

• Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

(2006) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-81741-5

"When the Counterculture met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community", Technology and Culture, Vol.46, No.3 (July, 2005), pp. 485–512.

Questions

How does this type of “virtual community,” as Rheingold defines and Turner describes it, compare to the kinds of virtual communities you might know about or be a part of today? How would you describe them?

Notices

Each person is required to present a Current Event once. At the time of this writing there is an open position for current events next week.