[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 55, Issue 31

Thu Mar 5 09:24:48 PST 2009

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research would be interested.

Jeremiah Spence
Editor, JVWR

Charles Ess wrote:
> Funny you should ask ...
> with Mia Consalvo, Robert Burnett, and the multiple contributors to our
> forthcoming _Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies_, we've been developing
> a list of journals that might be interested in reviewing the book when it
> becomes available this fall.  The following is _not_ intended to reflect any
> sort of priority ...
> 
> US
> New Media & Society
> Critical Studies in Media Communication
> Journal of Communication
> Information, Communication & Society
> Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
> Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
> Electronic Journal of Communication
> Media, Culture & Society
> First Monday
> Review of Communication
> The Information Society
> Journal of Online Behavior -- Barry Wellman was on editorial board
> Telecommunications Policy (Sandra Braman has published)
> Telematics & Informatics (Sandra Braman on editorial board)
>  
> International:
> Nordicom Review 
> Mediekultur
> International Journal of Internet Science -- Barry Wellman, editorial board
> Mobile Communication Research Annual -- Barry Wellman, editorial board
> Javnost/The Public
> European Journal of Communication
> Media, Culture, and Society
> Continuum
> Ethics and the Information Society
> 
> It would be interesting to see if other AoIRists have additional
> suggestions, comments, etc.
> 
> Enjoy!
> - charles ess
> 
>> I apologize in advance for the absurdity of (the scope of) this request--but
>> can anyone point me to a good list of some of the favorite current
>> Internet/New Media related journals. (I realize the words good and favorite in
>> this context are fairly useless descriptors but didn't want this email to
>> become a paper in and of itself, so thought I'd try those words out and see if
>> they'd slip past, unnoticed...)
>>  
>> Thanks very much!
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
>>  
>> Kevin Sherman
>> Researcher
>> Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication
>>
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>>    1. communities of practice (Barry Wellman)
>>    2. Re: Communities of practice (brian morgan)
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:34:56 -0500
>> From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
>> Subject: [Air-L] communities of practice
>> To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
>> Cc: carey sargent <sargent at virginia.edu>,Yuri Takhteyev
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>> Folks were asking today about communities of practice in relation to ICTs.
>> Just so happens that our editorial team (Chris Nippert-Eng, me, Jess
>> Collins, Julie Amoroso) is right now putting together the final version of
>> the special CITASA issue of Information COmmunication and Society -- due
>> out this August.
>>
>> Two of the papers are CoP:
>>
>> Carey Sargent's study of "Local Musicians Building Global Audiences" in
>> Richmond & Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. You can also catch Carey
>> talking about her research on YouTube, and listen to her bank, pinko
>> communards on their own website.
>>
>> Yuri Takhteyev's "Networks of Practice as Heterogeneous Actior Networks:
>> The Case of Software Development in Brazil." The title says it all.
>>
>> Both are nice case studies combining theory, observation and reflection.
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> Barry Wellman
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>> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:05:47 -0500 (EST)
>> From: "brian morgan" <morganb at geneseo.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Communities of practice
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>> I have found this book helpful when thinking about communities of practice:
>> Holland, D., W. Lachicotte, D. Skinner and C. Cain.  1998.  Identity and
>> agency in cultural worlds.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>>
>> Also, Scollon, R. (2001). Mediated discourse: The nexus of practice. London:
>> Routledge and some chapters from Jones, R. H., & Norris, S. (2005). Discourse
>> in action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. London [u.a.]: Routledge.
>>
>> I hope this is of assistance to you.
>>
>> b
>>
>> Brian Morgan
>> Ella Cline Shear School of Education
>> SUNY Geneseo
>> Geneseo, NY 14454
>> 585-245-5149
>> http://www.xopc29.org ( http://www.xopc29.org/ ) (main site)
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