Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold at Ars Electronica 2004 in Linz

Howard Rheingold (* 1947 in Arizona , USA ) is an American social scientist and author. For decades he has dealt with the socio-cultural and political effects of new technologies and the forms of communication that they make possible.

Life

Howard Rheingold has psychology at Reed College of the State University of New York studied. Since 1985 he has participated in The WELL - which can best be described as a bulletin board system . In 1994 he helped found Hotwired , Wired's website .

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

Fonts

  • 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 .
  • with 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 we can activate our unconscious in order to help our creative abilities to break through (=  Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch. Ratgeber . Volume 66214 ). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-404-66214-8 .
  • Virtual reality . Summit Books, New York NY et al. 1991, ISBN 0-671-69363-8 .
  • Virtual worlds. Travel in cyberspace . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-498-05731-6 .
  • The Virtual Community. Homesteading at the Electronic Frontier . Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 1993, ISBN 0-201-60870-7 ( in HTML ).
  • 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 .
  • 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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SURNAME Rheingold, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Arizona , USA