virtual_communities


 * Virtual communities**

The topic of virtual communities has been the subject of a lot of writing, including various chapters from Subhasish Dasgupta’s //Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies// (2006).

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Chapters, in Dasgupta include Erik Champion's on on group facilitation and virtual places, and David Gurr, on e-leadership(2006). Roberts, Smith, & Pollock, (2006) point to the importance of understanding the role of a //Psychological sense of community in virtual communities//. Robin Teigland, & Molly Wasko discuss the concept of electronic networks of practice (2006).

e.g. Christopher Hoadley, and Pete Kilner explore CoPs and other frameworks (e.g. distributed cognition) (//todo// what do they explore?).
 * Virtual communities and the CoPs literature**

The literature is wide and covers many concepts relevant to the Tagunity framework. For example Krzysztof Juszczyszyn's chapter (also in Dasgupta, 2006) discusses //Virtual communities and the alignment of web ontologies//, (see ontology alignment).
 * Virtual communities and ontologies literature**

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Bieber, M., Im, I., Rice, R., Goldman-Segall, R., Paul, R., Stohr, E., et al. (2002, January 7-10). Towards knowledge-sharing and learning in virtual professional communities. Paper presented at the Thirty Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Community Informatics Minitrack), Big Island, HI. Champion, E. M. (2006). Online group facilitation. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 354-). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. Dasgupta, S. (2006). Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. Gurr, D. (2006). E-leadership. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 161-165). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. Hoadley, C. M., & Kilner, P. G. (2005). Using technology to transform communities of practice into knowledge-building communities. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 25(4), 31-40. Juszczyszyn, K. (2006). Virtual communities and the alignment of web ontologies. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 497-499). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. Lesser, E. L., & Storck, J. (2001). Communities of practice and organisational performance. IBM Systems Journal, 40(4), 831-841. Preece, J., & Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2005). Online Communities: Design, Theory and Practice. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4). Riel, M., & Polin, L. (2004). Online learning communities: Common ground and the critical differences in designing technical environments. In S. A. Barab, R. Kling & J. H. Gray (Eds.), Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning (pp. 16-50). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Roberts, L. D., Smith, L. M., & Pollock, C. M. (2006). Psychological sense of community in virtual communities. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 390-396). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. Rohde, M., Reinecke, L., Pape, B., & Janneck, M. (2004). Community-building with Web-based systems – investigating a hybrid community of students. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 13(5-6), 471-499. Rovai, A. P. (2002). Sense of community, perceived cognitive learning and persistence in asynchronous learning networks. Internet and Higher Education, 5(4), 319-332. Ruhi, U. (2006). A social informatics framework for sustaining virtual communities of practice. In E. Coakes & S. Clarke (Eds.), Encyclopedia of communities of practice in information and knowledge management (pp. 466-473). Hershey, PA: Idea Group. Schank, P., Fenton, J., Schlager, M. S., & Fusco, J. (1999). From MOO to MEOW: Domesticating technology for online communities. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Schlager, M. S., & Fusco, J. (2004). Teacher professional development, technology, and communities of practice: Are we putting the cart before the horse? In S. A. Barab, R. Kling & J. H. Gray (Eds.), Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning (pp. 120-153). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Schlager, M. S., Fusco, J., & Schank, P. (2002). Evolution of an on-line education community of practice. In K. A. Renninger & W. Shumar (Eds.), Building virtual communities: Learning and change in cyberspace (pp. 129-158). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Teigland, R., & Wasko, M. M. (2006). Electronic networks of practice and communities of practice? In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 188-192). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. von Krogh, G. (2002). The communal resource and information systems. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 11, 85-107. Wellman, B., & Gulia, M. (1999). Net surfers don't ride alone: Virtual communities as communities. In M. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.), Communities in cyberspace (pp. 167-194). London: Routledge.
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