Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold ( born 1947 in Arizona, United States) is an American social scientist and author. He has been working for decades with the socio-cultural and political impact of new technologies and thereby enabled forms of communication.

Life

He studied psychology at Reed College, State University of New York. Since 1985, he has at The WELL - to describe the most appropriate and Bulletin Board System - participated. In 1994 he was involved in the founding of Hotwired, the website of Wired Magazine.

With his 1993 book " Virtual Community - Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier " Rheingold coined the term " virtual community ". In its publication, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution ( 2002), he examined how Internet technologies and lifestyle contribute to cross-border collaboration and the emergence of collectively intelligent systems. His latest work " Net Smart: How to Thrive Online" (2012 ) deals with the intelligent use of new information and communication technologies for information filtering and dissemination.

Works

  • With Howard Levine: Talking Tech. A Conversational Guide to Science and Technology. Morrow, New York, NY 1982, ISBN 0 - 688-00783 -X.
  • With Willis Harman: Higher Creativity. Liberating the Unconscious for breakthrough insights. JP Tarcher, Los Angeles, CA 1984, ISBN 0-87477-335-0.
  • Tools for Thought. The History and Future of Mind -Expanding Technology. Princeton University Press, London, 1985, ISBN 0-262-68115-3.
  • Rita Aero: New Technology Coloring Book. Software Toolworks, Beverly Hills CA 1986.
  • With Howard Levine: The Cognitive Connection. Thought and Language in Man and Machine. Prentice Hall Press, New York, NY, 1986, ISBN 0-13-139619-6.
  • Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind. A Book of Memes. Beach Tree Books, William Morrow, New York NY, 1988, ISBN 0-688-06833-2.
  • They have a Word For It A Lighthearted Lexicon of untranslatable Words and Phrases. Tarcher, Los Angeles, CA, 1988, ISBN 0-87477-464-0.
  • With Stephen LaBerge: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1990, ISBN 0-345-35894-5.
  • With Willis Harman: The art of being creative. How can we activate our unconscious to our creative abilities to achieve a breakthrough ( = Bastion - Luebbe paperback. Counselor. Vol. 66214 ). Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1991, ISBN 3-404-66214-8.
  • Virtual Reality. Summit Books, New York, NY, among others, 1991, ISBN 0-671-69363-8.
  • The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. Access to Tools and Ideas for the twenty - first Century. HarperSanFrancisco, New York NY 1994 ISBN 0-06-251059-2.
  • The Virtual Community. Social relationships in the computer age. Addison -Wesley, Bonn et al, 1994, ISBN 3-89319-671-4.
  • Smart Mobs. The Next Social Revolution. Perseus, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-7382-0861-2.
  • Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2012, ISBN 0-262-01745-8.
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