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Cyberville: Clicks, Cultures, and the Creation of an Online Town [Hardcover]

Stacy Horn (Author)

3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Hardcover: 351 pages
Publisher: Warner Books (31 Dec 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 044651909X
ISBN-13: 978-0446519090
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 595,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Looks at today's global cybervillage created through discussion groups and "online towns," from the woman who founded Echo, one of the first virtual salons.

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Stacy Horn's favorite excerpts from her book Cyberville
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"Think: Grover's Corners -- The Dark Side.Don't get me wrong, I love it here. I love this place and everyone in it, even the people I don't want to know and don't particularly like. When we were growing up we didn't get to pick who lived in our neighborhood ... Cyberspace is just like any small town ... Every virtual community has its town cranks and drunks, psychos and saints, good girls, bad girls, good guys, bad guys ... It may take a long time for the secrets to come out but you can't hide forever -- even online where no one can see you.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cyberville readable, highly entertaining, 14 Mar 1999

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This review is from: Cyberville: Clicks, Cultures, and the Creation of an Online Town (Hardcover)

Anyone questioning the relevance of Cyberville as a useful primer on internet culture should be pleased to learn that the book is being used as a core text in a course about cultures and communities in cyberspace at the University of Western Ontario. Don't let the use of Cyberville in an academic setting dissuade you, though. This book is far from your average textbook. Cyberville is an entertaining, highly readable account of author Stacy Horn's experiences with the creation of the online community ECHO. Horn uses a casual approach in detailing many of the issues relevant to online communities, including gender issues, cybersex, and online stalkers. The result is insightful and humourous. Cyberville is reccommended reading for anyone wanting to learn more about online communities. A word of warning, however -- Horn uses many postings from ECHO to illustrate her discussions. These egocentric ramblings from a bunch of self-loathing New Yorkers (especially the frequent examples from a conference entitled "I Hate Myself") are enough to inspire depression in even the cheeriest of individuals.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Offensive and uncivilised, 13 July 1998

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Call me a prude. I expected constructive descriptions about the founding and growth of a landmark virtual community. The vulgarity and coarsenes of this book, both in language and treatment of topic matter, is gratuitous and offensive. Are virtual communities this uncivilised? I should think not.

One star is too many.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A delightfully girlish take on virtual community. . ., 23 April 1998

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Stacy Horn could, were she so inclined, garner a following asa writer of YA novels, romances or biographies -- but she's chosen instead in CYBERVILLE to apply her uniquely feminine talents, to an online town's memoir set on turf she boldy pioneered herself, as founder and creator of NYC's best-known online community -- ECHO, a virtual small town within the big city which has under her personal direction become something of a haven for members ranging from serious authors to singles on the dating scene, and even the occasional online miscreant or Nazi sympathizer.

The positive reviews her book's received from the mainstream press, were written for a reason; amid the bustling market-driven concerns, scientifically ponderous considerations and academic sociology typically accorded much current new media buzz and hype, Horn's CYBERVILLE emerges victorious as a playful spring breeze brisking through a boardroom. It is, in short, fun to read, in a most warm and humanistically engaging way.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Man is the measure of all things. (It's the people, Stupid!)
In the technoculture of superficiality, 'community' has becomejust another buzz word, undistinguished in the mad rush to Make Money Fast on the Internet. Read more

Published on 22 April 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Warm, offbeat look at online life
The nice thing about Stacy Horn's book is that she's able tocapture the variety of online life. Her voice dominates, of course, but the reader gets to hear much of the Echo... Read more

Published on 22 April 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars CYBERVILLE makes text into community
Horn manages to convey the life and spirit of an online community by allowing the members, including herself, to be themselves -- the selves they are online, at any rate. Read more

Published on 22 April 1998

1.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't be farther from the truth
This book clearly distinguishes between the concept of a virtual community in Stacy Horn's mind, and the true experience of being a member of one of the premier virtual... Read more

Published on 27 Mar 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Good, detailed look at one virtual community
Stacy Horn does a good job of capturing the essense of Echo -- at least in the sense that I really felt like a part of Echo by the time I finished the book, not that I have any... Read more

Published on 28 Jan 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Cyberville describes the growth of an online community.

If all you've ever done on the Internet is surf the Web and send Email, you've barely scratched the surface. Read more

Published on 20 Jan 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool, compelling.
i couldn't put it down. brings home the experience in dense, funny, entertaining style.

Published on 20 Jan 1998

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