Websites : Connected Learning, The Peeragogy Project, Howard Rheingold, Rheingold U.
Howard Rheingold is a pioneer in the development of virtual communities. His book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993) was one of the first works to treat the Internet as a social and cultural environment worthy of popular and academic attention. His later books include Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) and Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (2012). He has taught for 30 years, online and face-to-face, at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; and, most recently, at Rheingold U., a new online learning community.
Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's...