TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renninger,K.Ann
AU  - Shumar,Wesley
TI  - Building virtual communities: learning and change in cyberspace 
T2  - Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
SN  - 9780511606373 (ebook)
AV  - TK5105.83 .B85 2002
U1  - 004.67 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Electronic villages (Computer networks)
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Computer networks
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606373
ER  -