InfoTech, Place, Time, and Forms of Virtual Community

Information Technologies involving Presence

• Speech

Information Technologies involving Synchronous (Real-time) Telepresence

• Telephone
• Video Conferencing
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• MOO/MUD
• Virtual Reality versions of IRC

Information Technologies involving Asynchronous Telepresence

• Writing
• Printing
• E-Mail
• Electronic bulletin boards, listservs, and discussion groups
• Hypertext on Networked Servers (e.g. WWW)

Last modified 27 January 2005