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Community and Communication: A Rounded Perspective1

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One of the big questions in the early days of Internet research was how the Internet would intersect with community. Scholars and policy makers were curious (and sometimes doubtful) aboutwhether peoplewould successfully carry communitywith them into the online realm, and watchedwith interest as users sought to make connections with people who shared an intellectual or emotional resonance but lacked physical co-presence (e.g. Rheingold, 1993; Turkle, 1995; Reid, 1999).

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Kayahara, J. (2006). Community and Communication: A Rounded Perspective1 . In: Purcell, P. (eds) Networked Neighbourhoods. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-601-8_7

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