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Volume 45 , Issue 4 (April 2002) table of contents
Supporting community and building social capital

SPECIAL ISSUE: Supporting community and building social capital table of contents

Pages: 45 - 49

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Judith Donath

MIT's Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Visualizing patterns in online conversations give participants a better grasp of their cyber environment and their fellow inhabitants.

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