Abstract: Community in cyberspace is in allusion to real community. There are evident discrepancies in the function or organizational form between cybercommunities and real communities. In other words, cybercommunities have no longer the meaning of an area and has been becoming an imaginative social space supported by computer networks. The interpersonal interaction between netizens in cybercommunities is both related to and different from those in real communities. This paper presents the characteristics and fu...

Key words: communityincyberspace, intercourseincyberspace