TY - JOUR AU - Glogoff, Stuart PY - 2001/03/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Virtual connections: Community bonding on the Net JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v6i3.840 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/840 SP - AB - In the mid-1990s, Howard Rheingold and Sherry Turkle reported on the social interactions of people in chat rooms and on newsgroups. While chat rooms and newsgroups continue to play a role in computer-mediated communication, the Web has assumed a prominent place in forging relationships among people with common interests. A series of community-based Web exhibits focusing on ethnic groups in Tucson, Arizona, and the U.S. Southwest, serves as a case study in how the Web is building electronic communities and renewing social capital. ER -