[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Williams, Betsy A - (betsyw)]

Dear David,

Another direction to go is looking into Siemens and Downes' connectivist MOOCs, which were based around a reading list and had discussion and interaction across multiple platforms.  

There's an article that mentions some of the diverse platform use here:  http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402 

I believe that Jeremy Knox's book "Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course" (https://www.routledge.com/Posthumanism-and-the-Massive-Open-Online-Course-Contaminating-the-Subject/Knox/p/book/9781138940826) also discusses how that class essentially created a different course for each person, based on which streams they looked at and how they engaged.  Knox also wrote the entry on Massive Open Online Courses for the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (M. A. Peters (ed.)) that touches on this, http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_219-1.pdf 

Good luck!
Betsy


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Betsy Williams, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Digital Society and Data Studies
University of Arizona School of Information




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Subject: [Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

Dear all,

I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest?

> I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg, Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct community. 

It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-)
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Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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