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Joanna Boyd "When Harry@geocities.com meets Sally@hotmail.com: Communities and Relationships via CMC" 
Building Authentic Communities in Virtual Spaces (Web site for the Collaborative Writing Worshop about computers & community at the Computers and Writing Conference, El Paso, May 18, 1995)
"Communities of Practice: The Social Dimensions of the Virtual World?" 
Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" (1993) (Village Voice, McGraw-Hill Higher Education)
Judith Donath (Mass Inst. of Technology) "Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community" ( Communities in Cyberspace)
Google Groups Archives for Usenet Newsgroups dating back to 1981
MOO Studies 
MUD Resource Collection (Lydia Leong)
Amy Bruckman and Michael Resnick "The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and Professional Community" (1995) 
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold, "21st: Mark Dery Achieves Escape Velocity" (on "post-humanism") (Salon)
Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community  
Smart Mobs ("a Website and Weblog about Topics and Issues discussed in the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold")
Mark Smith and Peter Kollock (Univ. Cali, Los Angeles) Communities in Cyberspace (1998) 
Sherry Turkle (MIT) "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" (1995) (adapted from her Life on the Screen)
Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia (U. Toronto) "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities" (pdf)
Barry Wellman and Wenhong Cheng (U. Toronto),  (IT & Society ) (pdf)
Wired Archive on Virtual Communities