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.

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

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

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

There are no virtual community meetings scheduled at this time.

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

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

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

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

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

Her book is still used in courses on the sociology of virtual communities.

"Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time."

"There needs to be compelling virtual communities where women would want to hang out."

Then someone had the idea of cashing in on the virtual community concept.

"You know, New York is the place to start building a virtual community of artists."

It's a lot easier to leave a virtual community.

How best to commemorate a member of a virtual community who dies?

The Internet became crucial, connecting people and allowing a virtual community to become real.

Considering offering free software, to support customers through internet, virtual community service has been set up.

Participatory Culture plays a large role in online and virtual communities.

On it are multiple social networks across which students learn to build games in a collaborative virtual community.

That's why people gravitate to virtual communities; human intelligence makes sense of new information.

Blogs engage readers and can build a virtual community around a particular person or interest.

This connection is stimulated by the activity characteristic of the particular virtual community.