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Research on Virtual Communities

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Research on Virtual Communities

Books

Hick, S. and J. McNutt (eds.) Advocacy, Activism and the Internet: Community Organization and Social Policy. Lyceum Books, 2002. (put in descriptive cateogry)

http://www.lyceumbooks.com/activism.htm

Surman and Weshler-Henry. Common Space: Beyond Virtual Community. Financial Times, 2001. (Other industries)

http://www.amazon.com/Commonspace-Virtual-Community-Mark-Surman/dp/0130893617

Papers

Abramson, J. (1998). The Internet and Community. In The Emerging Internet (pp. 59-80). Queenstown, MD: Institute for Information Studies.

http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/39e1d2e1281fb7f9a19afeb4da09e526.html

Adams Price, C. E., & Chandler, S. (2000). The star fleet ladies auxiliary: Evolution of an online women's mailing list. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 3(5), 811-816. (move to research) http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/10949310050191782

Bakardjieva, M., & Feenberg, A. (2002). Community technology and democratic rationalization. Information Society, 18(3), 181-192.

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/VirtCom.htm

Baym, N. (1995). The emergence of community in computer mediated communication. In S. G. Jones (Ed.), Cybersociety: Computer mediated communication and community. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pmMSzuT61DQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=+The+emergence+of+community+in+computer+mediated+communication.+&ots=2FwYYxL8SQ&sig=5TmF_6Xu6wnhmKFUEW_N-VATG4g

Bieber, M., Engelbart, D., Furuta, R., & Hiltz, S. R. (2002). Toward virtual community knowledge evolution. Journal of Management Information Systems, 18(4), 11-35.

http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,2,10;journal,21,28;linkingpublicationresults,1:106046,1

Blanchard, A., & Markus, M. L. (2003). The experienced "sense" of a virtual community: Characteristics and processes. The DATA BASE for advances in information systems.

http://web.bentley.edu/empl/m/lmarkus/Markus_Web_Documents_(pdf)/Experience_Sense_of_Virtual_Community.pdf

Blanchard, A. (in press). The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital. In M. Huysman & V. Wulf (Eds.), Social capital and information technology. Cambridge: MIT Press.

http://books.google.com/books?id=8uYbB1AeVrYC&dq=Social+capital+and+information+technology.&pg=PP1&ots=AwEmwQyk5Q&sig=w2jeGf4baufz8JsTUJxm0lZtHls&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DSocial%2Bcapital%2Band%2Binformation%2Btechnology.&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title

Blanchard, A., & Horan, T. (1998). Social capital and virtual communities. Social Science Computer Review,16, 293-307.

http://ssc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/3/293

Boyd, J. (2002). In community we trust: Online security communication at eBay. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 7(3), Np.

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue3/boyd.html

Bruckman, A, & Resnick, M. (1996). “The MediaMOO project: Constructionism and professional community”, In Y. Kafai & M. Resnick (Eds.) Constructionism in practice: Designing, thinking and learning in a digital world. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/94

Curtis, P. (1997). “Mudding: Social phenomenon in text-based virtual realities”, In S. Keisler (Ed.) Culture of the Internet, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Internet-Sara-Kiesler/dp/0805816356

Hagel, J. & Armstrong, A.G. (1997) Net gain: Expanding markets through virtual communities. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=G6PS4BcCTnGcKhKfPLp0Tyyxn0ZB6Q5P6jchpY5hhymGs3HG2PDK!1598072184?docId=5000569332

Harcourt, “The Impact of Transnational Discourses on Local Community Organizing,” Development, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2003.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/dev/2003/00000046/00000001/art00011

Herring, S.C. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing Co.

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-096X(199812)50%3A2%3C295%3ACCLSAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Huff, C. W., Sproull, L., & Kiesler, S. (1989). Electronic Communication and Organizational Commitment: Tracing the relationship in a city government. Journal of applied social psychology, 19, 1371-1391.

Jones, Q. (1997). “Virtual communities, virtual settlements, and cyber-archaeology: A theoretical outline”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3, [online].

Koh, J., & Kim, Y.-G. (2003). Sense of Virtual Community: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Validation. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 8(2), 75.

http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,5,7;journal,15,28;linkingpublicationresults,1:106045,1

Kollock, P. & Smith, M. (1994). Managing the virtual commons: Cooperation and conflict in computer communites [online].

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/csoc/papers/virtcomm/Virtcomm.htm

Markus, M. L., Manville, B. and Agres. C. (2000). “What Makes a Virtual Organization Work—Lessons from the Open Source World”, Sloan Management Review, vol. 42, pp. 13-26.

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2000/fall/1/

McCarthy, Helen; Miller, Paul; Skidmore, Paul. Network Logic: Who governs in an interconnected world? Demos, 2004. http://www.demos.co.uk/files/networklogic.pdf

Meier, A. (2000). Offering social support via the Internet: A case study of an online support group for social workers. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 17(2-3), 237-266.

http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?sid=519KADFVJQ5F9GSQBN0BS9RL9M24EHVF&ID=2905

Parks, M. & Floyd, K. (1996). “Making friends in cyberspace”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication [on-line].

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue4/parks.html

Rice, Ronald E.; Katz, James E.; Acord, Sophia; Dasgupta, Kiku; & David, Kalpana. Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice. 2004. http://rheingold2.jot.com/WikiHome/Syllabus/community.online.love.rice.doc

Roberts, L. D., Smith, L. M., & Pollock, C. M. (2002). MOOing till the cows come home: the sense of community in virtual environments. In C. C. Sonn (Ed.), Psychological sense of community: research, applications, implications. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 22, 33-43. http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/3

Wellman, B. Carrington, P & Hall, A. (1988). “Networks as Personal Communities,” In B. Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz (Eds.) Social structures: A network approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Structures-Approach-Contemporary-Sociology/dp/0762302917

Wellman, B., & Guilia, M. (1999). Net Surfers don't ride alone: Virtual communities as communities. In B. Wellman (Ed.), Networks in the global village: Life in contemporary communities: Westview.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/netsurfers/netsurfers.pdf

Wellman, B., Haase, A. Q., Witte, J., & Hampton, K. (2001). Does the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement social capital? Social networks, participation and community commitment. American Behavioral Scientist, 45, 437-456.

http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/45/3/436

Blanchard, A. L. (2006). Listserv implementation and sense of community: The relationships with increased knowledge and face-to-face interaction. International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2(2), 27-45.

Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2001). Sense of Virtual Community--Maintaining the Sense of Belonging , Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science , Nominated for best conference paper.

Blanchard, A. L. & Markus, M. L. (2004). The Experienced "Sense" of a Virtual Community: Characteristics and Processes. The Data Base for Advanced Information Systems, 35 (1).

Blanchard, A. L. (2004) Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying sense of community in the Julie/Julia Project. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and Culture. L. Gurak et al (Eds).

Blanchard, A. (2003) The Effects of Dispersed Virtual Communities on Face-to-Face Social Capital. In M. Huysman and V. Wulf (Eds.) Social Capital and Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0262083310/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-4102319-5383667#reader-link

Cross, Rob; Parker, Andrew; & Borgatti, Stephen P. A bird's eye view: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creation and sharing. IBM Institute for Business Value.

http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/imc/pdf/g510-1669-00-a-birds-eye-view-using-social-network-analysis.pdf

Katz, Nancy & Lazer, David. Building Effective Intra-Organizational Networks: The Role of Teams. Center for Public Leadership.

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/Pdf/KatzLazerWorkingPaper.pdf

Wellman, Barry. The Persistence and Transformation of Community: from Neighbourhood Groups to Social Networks. Wellman Associates, 2001.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/lawcomm/lawcomm7.PDF

Krebs, Valdis & Holley, June. Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving. ACEnet.

http://www.orgnet.com/BuildingNetworks.pdf

Hamman, Robin. Introduction to Virtual Communities Research and Cybersociology Magazine Issue Two.

http://www.cybersociology.com/files/2_1_hamman.html

Amy Bruckman, (2006), "A New Perspective on "Community" and its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems," In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts (pp. 616-621). Montréal, Québec, 22-27 April, 2006.

http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/bruckman-community-chi06.pdf

Howard Rheingold, (1992) "A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community."

http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/00/Community/virtual_communities92

Fred Turner, "Where the counterculture met the new economy: the WELL and the origins of virtual community," Technology and Culture, Volume 46, Number 3, July 2005, pp. 485-512.

http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Tech%20&%20Culture%2046%203.pdf (link doesn't work but web address is valid- copy and paste into browser)

Barry Wellman, "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25 (2001), Special Issue on "Networks, Class and Place," edited by Talja Blokland and Mike Savage.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/individualism/ijurr3a1.htm#N_2_

Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, Kathi Vian, Technologies of Cooperation, a report for Institute for the Future, 2003.

http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf

Christian Fuchs, (2006) "The Self-Organization of Virtual Communities," In: Journal of New Communications Research. Vol. 1. No. 1. pp. 29-68.

http://rheingold2.jot.com/WikiHome/Syllabus/VirtualCultureCommunity_V2.doc

Blanchard, Anita. Sense of Virtual Community in Listservs and Newsgroups. UNC Charlotte Department of Psychology, 2003.

http://www.psych.uncc.edu/alblanch/ResearchReportforVCs.htm

Websites (put websites and blogs on resources page)

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network

http://www.ynpn.org/

Taking It Global: Community for Youth Activists

http://www.takingitglobal.org/