In a virtual community, people know only what you tell them.

In many cases the participants do not know each other outside the virtual community.

But in exchange, he said, what the members of virtual communities need and want is respect.

"Our idea was that we could create virtual communities focused around a game."

For some, the virtual community may at times be preferable to the real world.

Because virtual communities are based on words alone, they have a lot to do with how people think about one another intellectually.

A chat room form of a virtual community may give real time conversations, but people can only talk to one another.

Social networking services are the most prominent type of virtual community.

It's also great for broadcast radio, where there's a virtual community of people listening at once.

We live in a virtual community here, so it doesn't matter where the agency is.

In 1980, he announced the coming of a worldwide Internet culture.

This is a motto often heard in discussions of Internet culture.

Leonard has written extensively on Internet culture and science fiction.

The policy fails to acknowledge long-standing Internet culture and conventions.

How do you adjust to a world that's increasingly becoming an Internet culture?

She then developed the plagiarist.org website, which was known for its humorous projects related to Internet culture.

But there still remains something appealing about 1999's Internet culture that comes through while reading the book.

Innovators in both music and images, two hot buttons of Internet culture, were cited as well.

She later went to produce Pop17, a web series documenting Internet culture.

But something strange happened once this organism came into contact with Internet culture.