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Building electronic communities: success and failure in computer networking

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This paper is about networking failures as well as networking successes. A research strategy for comparing educational activities conducted across electronic networks was employed to examine the critical features of successes as well as failures in designing electronic communities. The analysis provides a set of guidelines for those who plan to use telecommunications as a tool for creating global communities.

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  1. AT&T Learning Network, 943 San Dieguito Drive, 92024, Encinitas, CA, U.S.A.

    Margaret M. Riel

  2. University of Illinois, 61820, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.

    James A. Levin

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Riel, M.M., Levin, J.A. Building electronic communities: success and failure in computer networking. Instr Sci 19, 145–169 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120700

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