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cybersocieties  

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  • Cybersociety is a society in which computermediated communication significantly affects the organization and functioning of society. Computermediated communication (CMC) means the Internet in its many guises (e-mail, the Web), mobile phones (some Web enabled), instant messaging, groupware, enhanced pagers, wireless personal digital assistants, and the like. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Cybersocieties]

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