Net-surfers don’t ride alone: Virtual communities as communities

Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 331-366

  Wellman, Barry ^a   Gulia, Milena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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