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Howard Rheingold  

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  • 1947– Author, Online Pioneer Writer, editor, speaker, and online community builder, Howard Rheingold is best known as the author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), one of the first book-length attempts to treat the Internet as a social and cultural environment worthy of popular and academic attention. Rheingold was born in 1947 in Tucson, Arizona, and was raised in Phoenix. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Rheingold, Howard]

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