DeviantART is the world’s largest virtual art community, in which artists and enthusiasts can meet, share, and sell their art. Founded in 2000 by Angelo Sotira, Matthew Stephens, and Scott Jarkoff, it was one of the first social networks, pioneering in permitting users to create free profiles, a space to post artworks and converse. Innovative features of DeviantART include the ability to comment with a drawing tool, instead of words. Llamas became an important mascot to the DeviantART community, ...
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A. AthertonThe Rise of Virtual Communities https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9297-6_88. Angelo Sotira
Cofounder of DeviantART
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