[Air-L] Studying online community

Annamari Martinviita martinviita at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 04:14:07 PDT 2010


Thank you so much to everyone who replied to my message! My reading
list for the summer is definitely sorted now ;) If anyone would like
to see the compiled list of references my inquiry generated, let me
know.

Best regards,
Annamari Martinviita

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Scott MacLeod <scott at scottmacleod.com> wrote:
> I added these here:
> http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Norms.2C_Conventions.2C_Communities.2C_FAQs
>
> (Not sure why this list garbles my emails; no other lists do).
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> Scott
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> On Sun 27/06/10 2:09 PM , Caroline Haythornthwaite haythorn at illinois.edu
> sent:
>
> Let's start you off with some recent collections from AoIR members. The 2010
> American Behavioral Scientist issue in particular is on target for your
> interests. /Caroline
>
>
> Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (Eds.) (2008). Special issue of papers
> selected from the 2007 AoIR conference. Information, Communication and
> Society, 11(2), whole issue.
>
> Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2009). AoIR Special Issue.
> Information, Communication and Society, 12(3), whole issue.
>
> Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). AoIR Special Issue.
> Information, Communication and Society, 13(3), whole issue.
>
> Haythornthwaite, C. & Kendall, L. (Eds.) (2010). Internet and Community.
> American Behavioral Scientist, 53(8), whole issue.
>
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:22:26 +0300
>>From: Annamari Martinviita <martinviita at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [Air-L] Studying online community
>>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I'm just getting started on my PhD studies, unfunded as yet, regarding
>>new social technologies and online communities and would really
>>appreciate any hints, tips and advice members of this list may have on
>>good information sources, relevant publications, events and so on.
>>
>>Broadly speaking, I'm interested in how communities extend from the
>>online to the offline and vice versa, how participation in online
>>communities becomes part of every-day life, how the lines between
>>offline and online communication and relationship building are blurred
>>as access to online social tools becomes ubiquitous. More specifically,
>>I am looking at how new social technologies affect local communities and
>>what developers should take into consideration while creating new tools
>>with a view of fostering online community. I hope to come up with
>>results that offer an insight into how the concept of community is
>>changing for members of a hyper-connected society, and the implications
>>of that change for local communities. My research approach is ethnographic.
>>
>>It would be great to hear from others with similar interests, and also
>>perhaps to discover fellow "sufferers" at similar stages of their
>>academic careers, for a bit of mutual support and encouragement. :) Of
>>course, any advice would be hugely appreciated!
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Annamari Martinviita
>>PhD student
>>University of Oulu, Finland
>>martinvi at mail.student.oulu.fi
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> --------------------------------------
> Caroline Haythornthwaite
>
> Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London
> (2009-10)
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> Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
> Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820
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