Building Virtual Communities (eBook, PDF)

Learning and Change in Cyberspace
Redaktion: Renninger, K. Ann

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Produktbeschreibung

Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. Contributors to this volume explore this question by drawing on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies, and personal experience with virtual communities. Each chapter discusses the different meanings of the terms community, learning, and change. Case studies are included for further clarification. Together, these chapters describe the building out of virtual communities in terms that are relevant to theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The chapters provide a basis for thinking about the dynamics of Internet community building. This includes consideration of the role of the self or individual as a participant in virtual community, and the design and refinement of technology as the conduit for extending and enhancing the possibilities of community building in cyberspace. Building Virtual Communities will interest educators, psychologists, sociologists, and researchers in human-computer interaction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511034893
• Artikelnr.: 38212556

Inhaltsangabe

Preface K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar; Foreword: virtual communities
for learning and development: a look to the past and some glimpses into the
future Michael Cole; Introduction: on conceptualizing community Wesley
Shumar and K. Ann Renninger; Part I. Types of Community: 1. The mystery of
the death of Mediamoo: seven years of evolution of an online community Amy
Bruckman and Carlos Jensen; 2. Female voices in virtual reality: drawing
young girls into an on-line world Ann Locke Davidson and Janet Ward
Shofield; 3. Community building with and for teachers at the math forum K.
Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar; 4. Learning in the virtual community
depends upon changes in local communities Beverly Hunter; Part II.
Structure and Community: 5. Evolution of an on-line education community of
practice Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco and Patricia Schank; 6. Building
social networks via computer networks: creating and sustaining distributed
learning communities Caroline Haythornthwaite; 7. Mask and identity: the
hermeneutics of self construction in the information age Dorian Wiszniewski
and Richard Coyne; 8. WISE learning communities: design considerations Alex
J. Cuthbert, Douglas B. Clark and Marcia C. Linn; Part III. Possibilities
for Community: 9. Reflexive modernization and the emergence of wired
self-help Roger Burrows and Sarah Nettleton; 10. Understanding the
lifecycles of network-based learning communities James Levin and Raoul
Cervantes; 11. Learning in cyberspace: an educational view of virtual
community D. Jason Nolan and Joel Weiss; 12. Finding the ties that bind:
tools in support of a knowledge-building community Christopher M. Hoadley
and Roy D. Pea; Afterword: building our knowledge of virtual community:
some responses David Hakken; Afterword: building, buying, or being there:
imagining online community Steven G. Jones.