Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Schedule/5

The Whole Earth Catalog and the WELL — Craigslist and Facebook Before Time

=Readings=
 * Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
 * (2006) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-81741-5
 * "When the Counterculture met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community", Technology and Culture, Vol.46, No.3 (July, 2005), pp. 485–512.

=Questions= How does this type of “virtual community,” as Rheingold defines and Turner describes it, compare to the kinds of virtual communities you might know about or be a part of today? How would you describe them?

=Notices= Each person is required to present a Current Event once. At the time of this writing there is an open position for current events next week.