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Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele; Chatman, Elfreda A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
This essay proposes the theory of normative behavior and presents general discussions of two communities-the online world of virtual communities and the world of feminist booksellers associated with the Women in Print Movement-that can be used as test cases for that theory. (Contains 73 references.) (AEF)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community