Texts

The required texts, which we'll be reading from over the semester, are:

• Wenger, Etienne (1998) Communities of Practice (Amazon link; buy it now; we'll start reading this for the Feb. 2 class) . [Note: you want Communities of Practice, 1988, not the more recent "Cultivating Communities of Practice."]
• Powazek, Derek (2001) Design for Community (Out of print)
• Kim, Amy Jo (2000) Community Building on the Web (Out of print)

Required excerpts from Powazek and Kim will be available in a course pack (at Ulrich's), and on reserve at the Shapiro Library. The Course pack is not yet available (as of Jan 9-- if you find that they are available, please send an email to the class.). The first chapter of each book, which you should read for the first day of class, will be available as PDFs.

We'll be reading excerpts from the following books, but the excerpts will be available on-line.

• Smith1998: Smith, Marc A and Peter Kollock, eds. Communities in Cyberspace
• Minow1997: Minow, Martha, Not Only For Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law
• Sunstein2001: Sunstein, Cass, republic.com
• Putnam2001: Putnam, Robert, Bowling Alone

We are arranging for all the required readings, except those from Powazek, Kim, and Wenger, to be available on-line. Some optional readings listed in the syllabus are not provided-- you'll have to track those down yourself based on the reference provided in the syllabus