%0 Journal Article
%T A Critical Review on Some Key Terms Taken from The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold | Huang | Asian Social Science | CCSE
%A Xiaowei Huang
%J Home | Asian Social Science | CCSE
%D 2019
%R 10.5539/ass.v15n9p46
%X This paper aims to review and re-examine some of the key terms taken from Howard Rheingold¡¯s book The Virtual Community, which was published in 1998. Even though it has been 2 decades since this book was published, Rheingold¡¯s ideas are affective and applicable to the current research on virtual community. As the first man who invents the term ¡®virtual community¡¯, Rheingold provides a number of significant contribution and offers more room for the further studies on virtual community, as well as virtual world. Rheingold¡¯s foresight on the understanding of virtual community has great impact on the current studies of the virtual world
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/0/40534