Just to clarify Monica Murero's Encyclopedia posting: It is the Encyclopedia of Communty, to be published by Sage this June. It contains 49 articles about the internet (et al) and community, including a very nice one in which Monica is the lead author. I edited all of them (And a pox on the 2 readers of this list who defaulted on their articles at the very end, putting tremendous stress on me and the 2 wonderful people who jumped in as replacement authors -- they're also readers of this list.) Howevever, the 49 articles are only 1/8 of the entire Encyclopedia. It's in 4 volumes. It also has 650 leads to popular books, movies, etc on community -- Many thanks to the list readers who responded with suggestions. We used most of them. The bad news is that the book is expensive. 500+ USD -- which means that effectively only libraries and Microsoft employees can afford it! I have been trying to get Sage to publish a revised version of our 49 internet/community articles as a separate book, but they haven't agreed now. Perhaps after they do their library sales, we will have better luck. Of course, we are a fast moving field, and I'd face the task of editing 49 articles again, but 45/49 were a joy to work with -- thanks to all of you. Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman@chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________