Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice

by Darin Barney and Andrew Feenberg

Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for reconnection. Are virtual communities "real" enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742529592
• ISBN13: 9780742529595
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A philosophical discussion of how community is changing

If it's a philosophical discussion of how community is changing in the digital age that is needed, you need go no further than Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney's collection Community In The Digital Age: it updates and extends debates about who we are when we're online, discusses differences between online and offline realities, and provides critical assessments of the Internet's relationships to public life. A challenging survey of one of the fastest-changing relationships in modern times, Community In The Digital Age should be required reading.