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标题：Mapping the Virtual in Social Sciences: On the Category of "Virtual Community"
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作者：Serge Proulx ; Guillaume Latzko-Toth
期刊名称：Journal of Community Informatics
印刷版ISSN：1712-4441
电子版ISSN：1712-4441
出版年度：2005
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Journal of Community Informatics
摘要：Lately the term "virtual" has been used more and more frequently by both scholars and journalists to refer to social phenomena and entities. Quite representative of this trend is the phrase "virtual community" which has been rapidly accepted in common language. However, its use by social scientists raises many questions. Since the words "virtual" and "community" are both polysemic, what exactly might the term "virtual community" mean? And what new kind of collectivity is it supposed to circumscribe? Doesn't it imply a sort of nostalgia for a mythical form of community, along with an idealization of face-to-face interactions? This paper attempts to offer some elements of solution to these questions by means of a critical examination of recent social science texts.