She's too modest to tell you, but there's a really nice book review of Lori Kendall's _Hanging out in the Virtual Pub: Relationships and Masculinities Online. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2002. The review by UCLA community sociologist David Halle is in the January 2004 issue of _Contemporary Sociology_, v.33, n.1, p. 31-32. (CS is the major soc review journal.) Here are some excerpts: "In the course of this engagingly written, well-researched, and illuminating case study, Kendall examines almost the entire gamut of theories about the nature of online interaction." "Kendall's main conclusion is that online interactions are much more like those offline than is sometimes thought." Lori's book is a wonderful ethnography of a bunch of guys (and a few gals) highly involved in an online, text-based community (no cute little avatars).