Writing in online Communities Exercise

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Writing in online Communities Exercise

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Visit the MIT Press Web site. Read the futuristic chapter, “Only Connect,” from Rowlin’s “Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology”.

Do any of your experiences working with e-mail, listservs, bulletin boards, or networked computer software games come close to the world Rowlin’s describes? In what ways? Use Rowlin’s framework to describe some of your own online community experiences.

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