WHAT IS A NETIZEN?
                                       
   Well, that is a very good question. In conducting research on-line to
   determine people's uses for the 'Net, I became very excited at the
   prospects of this new social institution. In response to the excitment
   others had (and which I also had), I felt that the people I was
   writing about were citizens of the Net. Sometimes people on the Net
   would call the users of the Net, a net.citizen (read net citizen) as
   newsgroups were all originally net.x, where x was the subject and this
   was used in describing net entities. This idea I changed into the
   english Net Citizen, which further led to Netizen.
   
   Here are some More thoughts on Netizens. Also, a speech I gave in
   Japan about the origins of Netizen.
   
   Those interested in reading the results of my research can retrieve my
   paper "The Net and the Netizens: The Impact the Net has on People's
   Lives" in one of several ways:
     * Via FTP at wuarchive.wustl.edu
     * Via Plaintext WWW in USA. [Latest edited version of paper.]
     * Via Hypertexted WWW in USA.
     * Via Hypertexted WWW in Ireland
     * Via Plain-text WWW at wuarchive.wustl.edu
       
   At a later date, this paper will be refitted completely into html
   locally for easier on-line reading.
   
   Look to the Netizen's Cyberstop page, the Netizens Netbook, and the
   Netizen Issue of the Amateur Computerist Newsletter for more
   information and thoughts about the concept of a Net Citizen.
   
   E-mail me at hauben@columbia.edu if you have any thoughts or concerns
   about this concept, and thank you for reading! :-)
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    Michael Hauben / hauben@columbia.edu