Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511606373

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.

‘… this volume provides an important initial grounding to a topic of much interest to educators, designers, sociologists, anthropologists, and even past, present, and future community members.’

Source: Convergence 2003

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
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Contributors
pp xi-xiv
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Series Foreword
pp xv-xvi
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, Wesley Shumar, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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Preface and Acknowledgments
pp xvii-xx
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, WESLEY SHUMAR, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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Foreword: Virtual Communities for Learning and Development – A Look to the Past and Some Glimpses into the Future
pp xxi-xxx
- By Michael Cole, University of California, San Diego Laboratory of Human Cognition La Jolla, CA 92093-0092 mcole@ucsd.edu
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Building Virtual Communities
pp xxxi-xxxii
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, WESLEY SHUMAR, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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Introduction: On Conceptualizing Community
pp 1-18
- By Wesley Shumar, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org, K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu
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Part One - Types of Community
pp 19-20
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, WESLEY SHUMAR, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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1 - The Mystery of the Death of MediaMOO: Seven Years of Evolution of an Online Community
pp 21-33
- By Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing 801 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 asb@cc.gatech.edu, Carlos Jensen, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing 801 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 carlosj@cc.gatech.edu
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2 - Female Voices in Virtual Reality: Drawing Young Girls into an Online World
pp 34-59
- By Ann Locke Davidson, Educational Connections, LLC 1012 S.W. King Avenue, Suite 301 Portland, OR 97205 davidson@educationalconnections.com, Janet Ward Schofield, University of Pittsburgh 517 LRDC 3939 O'Hara Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260-5159 schof@pitt.edu
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3 - Community Building with and for Teachers at The Math Forum
pp 60-95
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, Wesley Shumar, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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4 - Learning in the Virtual Community Depends upon Changes in Local Communities
pp 96-126
- By Beverly Hunter, Piedmont Research Institute 130 Mossie Lane Amissville, VA 20106 bev_hunter@piedmontresearch.org
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Part Two - Structures and Community
pp 127-128
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, WESLEY SHUMAR, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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5 - Evolution of an Online Education Community of Practice
pp 129-158
- By Mark S. Schlager, SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 schlager@unix.sri.com, Judith Fusco, SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 jfusco@unix.sri.com, Patricia Schank, SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 schank@unix.sri.com
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6 - Building Social Networks Via Computer Networks: Creating and Sustaining Distributed Learning Communities
pp 159-190
- By Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820 haythorn@uiuc.edu
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7 - Mask and Identity: The Hermeneutics of Self-Construction in the Information Age
pp 191-214
- By Dorian Wiszniewski, University of Edinburgh Department of Architecture 20 Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JZ United Kingdom Dorian.Wiszniewski@ed.ac.uk, Richard Coyne, University of Edinburgh Department of Architecture 20 Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JZ United Kingdom Richard.Coyne@ed.ac.uk
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8 - WISE Learning Communities: Design Considerations
pp 215-246
- By Alex J. Cuthbert, University of California at Berkeley Education in Mathematics, Science & Technology (EMST) 4523 Tolman Hall Berkeley CA 94720-1670 alx@socrates.berkeley.edu, Douglas B. Clark, University of California at Berkeley Education in Mathematics, Science & Technology (EMST) 4523 Tolman Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1670 clark@socrates.berkeley.edu, Marcia C. Linn, University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education 4523 Tolman Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1670 mclinn@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Part Three - Possibilities for Community
pp 247-248
- By K. Ann Renninger, Developmental and Educational Psychologist, Swarthmore College Program in Education 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 krennin1@swarthmore.edu, WESLEY SHUMAR, Cultural Anthropologist, Drexel University Department of Culture and Communication 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 wes@drexel.edu; Ethnographic Evaluator for the Math Forum, www.mathforum.org
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9 - Reflexive Modernization and the Emergence of Wired Self-Help
pp 249-268
- By Roger Burrows, University of York Centre for Housing Policy Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom rjb7@york.ac.uk, Sarah Nettleton, University of York Department of Social Policy and Social Work Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom sjn2@york.ac.uk
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10 - Understanding the Life Cycles of Network-Based Learning Communities
pp 269-292
- By James Levin, University of Illinois Department of Educational Psychology 220 Education Building 1310 S. 6th Street Champaign, IL 61820 j-levin@uiuc.edu, Raoul Cervantes, Momoyama Gakuin University (St. Andrew's University) 1-1 Manabino Izumi, Osaka, Japan 594-1198 ksakui@hotmail.com
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11 - Learning in Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community
pp 293-320
- By D. Jason Nolan, University of Toronto 252 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario M5S1V6 Canada jason.nolan@utoronto.ca, Joel Weiss, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto CTL Dept, 11 South 252 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario M5S1V6 Canada weiss@oise.utoronto.ca
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12 - Finding the Ties That Bind: Tools in Support of a Knowledge-Building Community
pp 321-354
- By Christopher Hoadley, SRI International and Stanford University 333 Ravenswood Avenue BN271 Menlo Park, CA 94025 tophe@ciltkn.org, Roy D. Pea, Stanford University Institute for Learning Sciences and Technologies School of Education Cubberly Hall Stanford, CA 94305 roypea@stanford.edu
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Afterword: Building Our Knowledge of Virtual Community: Some Responses
pp 355-367
- By David Hakken, SUNY Institute of Technology PO Box 3050 Utica, NY 13504-3050 hakken@sunyit.edu
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Afterword: Building, Buying, or Being There: Imagining Online Community
pp 368-376
- By Steven G. Jones, University of Illinois Department of Communication (m/c 132) 1007 W. Harrison, Room 1140 Chicago, IL 60607 sjones@uic.edu
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Index
pp 377-380
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