Session 2 (Tuesday 31st october, 17:30-19:30/Thursday 25th January, 14:00-16:00)

Community and Identity Online

Reading for the session

Saarinen, L. (2002). Imagined Community and Death Digital Creativity, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp 53-61

Donath, J.S. (1998). ‘Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community.’ In Kollock, P. and Smith M. (Eds). Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge available online at http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html

Baym, N. (1998) 'The Emergence of On-Line Community' In S. Jones (Ed) Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, pp. 35-68. Thousand Oaks: Sage