Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The rise and fall of netville : the saga of a cyberspace construction boomtown in the Great Divide / John King, Rebecca E. Grinter, and Jeanne M. Pickering -- Atheism, sex, and databases : the net as a social technology / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj -- Pornography in cyberspace : an exploration of what's in the USENET / Michael D. Mehta and Dwaine E. Plaza -- BOX : erotica on the internet : early evidence from the HomeNet trial / Jane Manning ... [et al.] -- From the couch to the keyboard : psychotherapy in cyberspace / Yitzchak M. Binik ... [et al.] --Interpreting soap operas and creating community : inside a electronic fan culture / Nancy K. Baym -- Mudding : social phenomena in text-based virtual realities / Pavel Curtis -- Constructions and reconstructions of self in virtual reality : playing in the MUDs / Sherry Turkle -- Seeking social support ; parents in electronic support groups / Kristin D. Mickelson -- An electronic group is virtually a social network / Barry Wellman -- A brave new world or a new world order? / Christopher R. Kedzie -- Conflict on the internet / Peter J. Carnevale and Tahira M. Probst -- BOX : coordination, control, and the intranet / Rob Kling -- Electronic brainstorming : science meets technology in the group meeting room / Terry Connolly -- Email overload : exploring personal information management of Email / Steve Whittaker and Candace Sidner -- BOX : more that we can know : the attentional economics of internet use / Warren Thorngate -- The kindness of strangers : on the usefulness of electronic weak ties for technical advice / David Constant, Lee Sproull, and Sara Kiesler -- Media use in a global corporation : electronic mail and organizational knowledge / Robert E. Kraut and Paul Attewell -- Organizational dimensions of effective digital library use : closed rational and open natural systems models / Lisa Covi and Rob Kling -- The internet in school : a case study of educator demand and its precursors / Janet W. Schofield ... [et al.] -- Computer networks and scientific work / John P. Walsh and Todd Bayma -- Computers and connectivity : current trends / Tora K. Bikson and Constantijn W.A. Panis