Howard Rheingold - Definition and Overview

Howard Rheingold at the Ars Electronica

Howard Rheingold is a leading thinker on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communications media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities. He was involved early on with The WELL - an influential early online community - and Hotwired, the website that complemented Wired Magazine.

Books

• The Virtual Community (free in HTML form) (http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html)
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
• Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (free in HTML form) (http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/)
• They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases

External links

• Howard Rheingold's Web site (http://www.rheingold.com).
• Smart Mobs weblog/book site (http://www.smartmobs.com/index.html)

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