How does the nature of community change in the electronic environment?
chip bruce
(chip@uiuc.edu)
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Subject Areas
| Educational Technology, Information Science, Social Studies |
Grade Levels
| Preschool, Kinder, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Vocational, Undergraduate, Continuing |
Unit Keywords
Open Directory Category
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Computers/Internet/Cyberspace/Online_Communities |
Rationale of the Unit
| Communities in which the interaction among participants is wholly or partially mediated through electronic means (email, bulletin boards, web sites, synchronous technologies, ...) raise new issues for the classic questions about inclusion/exclusion, collective knowledge-making, and community processes. |
Background and Resources
BACKGROUND
Mitchell, William J. (1996). City of bits: Space, place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-63176-8.
READINGS
Bruce, B. C., & Rubin, A. (1993). The Alaska QUILL network: Fostering a teacher community through telecommunication. In B. C. Bruce & A. D. Rubin, Electronic Quills: A situated evaluation of using computers for writing in classrooms . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Rheingold, H. (April, 1999). Technology, community, humanity and the net. IntellectualCapital.com, 4 (17).
WEB SITES
Blacksburg Electronic Village - an outreach effort of Virginia Tech; provides a wide range of free and fee-based services to other communities worldwide.
RESOURCES
Donath, J. (1996). Inhabiting the virtual city: The design of social environments for electronic communities. Ph.D. Thesis, MIT.
Handa, C. (Ed.) (1990). Computers and community: Teaching composition in the twenty-first century . Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, Heineman.
Kling, Rob (1980). Social analyses of computing: Theoretical perspectives in empirical research. Computing Surveys, 12 (1), 61-110.
Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V., Kiesler, S, Mukophadhyay,T & Scherlis, W. (1998). Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being? American Psychologist, 53 (9).
Levin, J. A., Kim, H., & Riel, M. (1990). Analyzing instructional interactions on electronic message networks. In L. Harasim (Eds.), Online education: Perspectives on a new medium . New York: Praeger/Greenwood.
Levin, J. A., Riel, M. M., Rowe, R. D., & Boruta, M. J. (1985). Muktuk meets jacuzzi: Computer networks and elementary school writers. In S. W. Freedman (Ed.), The acquisition of written language: Revision and response . Hillsdale, NJ: Ablex.
Levin, J. A., Waugh, M. L., Chung, H. K., & Miyake, N. (1992). Activity cycles in educational electronic networks. Interactive Learning Environments, 2 (2), 3-13.
Ong, W. J. (1988). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word . London: Methuen. Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally, even when it is composing its thought in oral form. More than any other single invention, writing has transformed human consciousness. (p. 79)
Riel, M. M. (1990). Cooperative learning across classrooms in electronic learning circles. Instructional Science, 19(4), 445-466. - Discussion of AT&T's electronic learning circles in the light of cooperative learning theory.
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