[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Anna Smith]

Hi David and all,

Recently, we used a transliteracies framework to trace learning in a
community that is distributed across multiple platforms. I am including
links to each of those pieces below. The empirical piece doesn't directly
address how interaction differed by platform, but it does focus on how
practices were taken up across platforms and became communal/built
community in a sense.

Remix as Professional Learning: Educators’ Iterative Literacy Practice in
CLMOOC http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/6/1/12
Developing a Transliteracies Framework for a Connected World
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1086296X16683419

Thanks,
Anna

-- 
Anna Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor, Secondary Education
Illinois State University
http://about.me/anna_smith


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:26 PM, David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ;-)
> --
> Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media”
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-- 
Anna Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor, Secondary Education
Illinois State University
http://about.me/anna_smith