internet and communities
Avatars—online representations of people—allow millions of Internet users to represent themselves to others, experience life in virtual communities, build their dream homes on digital landscapes, and engage in a novel form of human expression. The term cyberspace was coined by the novelist William Gibson in his 1984 work Neuromancer, and virtual worlds were colorfully described in Vernor Vinge's True Names in 1981 and in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash in 1992. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Avatar Communities]
avatar communities
concepts