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Jan 9 Introduction and Metaphors

Submitted by Paul Resnick on Sat, 2005-12-31 16:15.

This session will provide an overview of the course and explore the metaphors of community, network, and great good place. We will also examine the variety of purposes that a community may fulfill, drawing on your own experiences. Please read the required readings before class.

Required Reading (all students)
Preece Preece, J. (2000). Online communities. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. (What is an online community, pp 5-19). 
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Wellman 2001 Wellman, B. (2001). Computer networks as social networks. Science, 293(14 September), 2031-2034.
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Oldenberg Oldenberg, R. (1989). The great good place. Chapter 2, pages 20-42. 
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Kim Chapter 1
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Powazek Chapter 1
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Galston1999 Galston, W. A. (1999). Does the Internet Strengthen Community? [available online ]
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Rheingold1998 Rheingold, Howard. Virtual Communities. Chapter 11 in __The Community of the Future__, edited by Hesselbeing, Goldsmith, Beckhard, and Schubert. 1998. pps. 115-122.
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Hafner1997 Hafner, Katie. The Epic Saga of The Well: The World's Most Influential Online Community (And It's Not AOL). //Wired// 5.05 May 1997. [available here ]
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Sproull2003

Sproull, Lee. Online Communities. Draft prepared for __The Internet Encyclopedia__, edited by Hossein Bidgoli, to be published by John Wiley and sons.

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Schank2002

(** Learning**) Schank, P., Harris, A., & Schlager, M.S. (2002). Painting a Landscape onto TAPPED IN 2. Presented to the "The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community" workshop at the CSCW Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 16-20, 2002. [available through attached file]

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Finholt2002

(** Work**) Finholt, Thomas A. Collaboratories. Chapter submitted for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, B. Cronin, ed. [available through here ]

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Raymond1998

(** Work**) Raymond, Eric. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. //First Monday//, 3(3) [available through here ]

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Rossney1996 (** Games**) Rossney, Robert (1996). Metaworlds. //Wired// 4.06. June 1996. [available here ]
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DerekHansen,

( ** Games**) Student papers from a few years ago [available Chess ]

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Jung-woo Sohn,

(**Games**) Student papers from a few years ago [available StarCraft ]

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Price2001

( **Political and other Deliberation**)  Price, Vincent and Joseph N. Cappella. Online Deliberation and its Influence: The Electronic Dialogue Project in Campaign 2000. Paper presented to the annual meetings of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, Montreal, CA, May 2001. [available through  course reserves ] See also two other sites: http://www.e-thepeople.org/ and http://slashdot.org/

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Gibson1999

 (**Commerce**) Gibson, William. My Obsession. //Wired// 7.01 January 1999. [available here ]

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Cummings2002

(**Social Support**) Cummings, J., L. Sproull, and S. Kiesler, Beyond Hearing: Where real world and online support meet. //Group Dynamics//, 2002. 6: p. 78-88. [available course reserves ]

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Rheingold2004

(**Political Action and Social Movements**) Rheingold, Howard, __Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many__, Chapter 15 in Network Logic: Who governs in an interconnected world? Edited by Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, and Paul Skidmore. [available through course reserves ]  See also http://moveon.org/ and http://www.rtmark.com/home.html

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Agre2003

(**Networking**)  Agre, P. Networking on the Net. [available online ]

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Hampton2000

(**Neighboring**) Hampton, K. and B. Wellman, Examining Community in the Digital Neighbourhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb, in __Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives__, T. Ishida and K. Isbister, Editors. 2000, Springer-Verlag: Berlin. p. 475-492. [available online ]

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Lego enthusiasts (**Hobbies**) See  http://www.lugnet.com for Lego enthusiasts
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Final paper about VDrums from Hans Masing

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