{"product_id":"building-virtual-communities-learning-and-change-in-cyberspace-paperback-9780521785587","title":"Building Virtual Communities; Learning and Change in Cyberspace (Paperback) 9780521785587","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBuilding Virtual Communities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLearning and Change in Cyberspace\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuilding Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eK. Ann Renninger (Edited by), Wesley Shumar (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521785587, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 8 July 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages, 19 b\/w illus.  10 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… 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.' Convergence 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBuilding 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar\u003cbr\u003e Foreword: virtual communities for learning and development: a look to the past and some glimpses into the future Michael Cole\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: on conceptualizing community Wesley Shumar and K. Ann Renninger\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 2. Female voices in virtual reality: drawing young girls into an on-line world Ann Locke Davidson and Janet Ward Shofield\u003cbr\u003e 3. Community building with and for teachers at the math forum K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar\u003cbr\u003e 4. Learning in the virtual community depends upon changes in local communities Beverly Hunter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Structure and Community: 5. Evolution of an on-line education community of practice Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco and Patricia Schank\u003cbr\u003e 6. Building social networks via computer networks: creating and sustaining distributed learning communities Caroline Haythornthwaite\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mask and identity: the hermeneutics of self construction in the information age Dorian Wiszniewski and Richard Coyne\u003cbr\u003e 8. WISE learning communities: design considerations Alex J. Cuthbert, Douglas B. Clark and Marcia C. Linn\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Possibilities for Community: 9. Reflexive modernization and the emergence of wired self-help Roger Burrows and Sarah Nettleton\u003cbr\u003e 10. Understanding the lifecycles of network-based learning communities James Levin and Raoul Cervantes\u003cbr\u003e 11. Learning in cyberspace: an educational view of virtual community D. Jason Nolan and Joel Weiss\u003cbr\u003e 12. Finding the ties that bind: tools in support of a knowledge-building community Christopher M. Hoadley and Roy D. Pea\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: building our knowledge of virtual community: some responses David Hakken\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: building, buying, or being there: imagining online community Steven G. Jones.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Cognition \u0026amp; cognitive psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Cognition \u0026amp; cognitive psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Cognition%20\u0026amp;%20cognitive%20psychology%20%5BJMR%5D%22\"\u003eJMR\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265084936472,"sku":"9780521785587","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521785587i.jpg?v=1692019311","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/building-virtual-communities-learning-and-change-in-cyberspace-paperback-9780521785587","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}