OnlineCommunities/Resources

Researchers & Research Projects

• Stephanie Allen Brigham Young University

• Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Keith Hampton, MIT

• Denham Grey Ontology Wiki

• SebastienPaquet

• Howard Rheingold

• Clay Shirky

• Barry Wellman, University of Toronto

• Etienne Wenger

• Nancy White

Journals

• Information, Communication & Society

• New Media & Society

• The Information Society

Papers

• Blanchard, Anita (2003) "Sense of Virtual Community in Listservs and Newsgroups"

• Butler, Timothy and David Coleman (2003) "Models of Collaboration"

• Coleman, David (2003) "What is Community?"

• Grantover Mark S. (1973) "The Strength of Weak Ties", American Journal of Sociology, Volume 78, Issue 6, 1360-1380

• Jordan, Ken, Jan Hauser, and Stephen Foster (2003) "The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet"

• Kim, Eugene (2003) "An Introduction to Open Source Communities"

• Wellman, Barry (with Janet Salaff, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Laura Garton, Milena Gulia and Caroline Haythornthwaite.) (1996) "Computer Networks as Social Networks: Virtual Community, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Telework" Annual Review of Sociology 22, 213-38.

Books

• Barab, Sasha, Rob Kling, and James Gray (Eds.) (2003), Designing Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

• Baym, Nancy K. (2000). Tune in, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

• Bell, David, and Barbara M. Kennedy, eds. (2000). The Cybercultures Reader: Routledge

• Birenbaum, Michael H. (2000) Psychological Experiments on the Internet, San Diego: Academic Press

• Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid (2002) The Social Life of Information, Harvard Business School Press

• Burdman, Jessica R. (1999) Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams Addison-Wesley Pub Co

• Cohill, A. and Kavanaugh, A. (eds.). (1997) Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia. Boston: Artech House.

• Damer, B., 1998. Avatars! Exploring and building virtual worlds on the Internet, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA.

• Ess, Charles. 1996. Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,

• Featherstone, Mike, and Rober Burrows, eds. 1995. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment. London: Sage

• Gurak, Laura J. 1999. Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace. The Online Protests over Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Hafner, Katie, 2001 The Well: A story of love, death & real life in the seminal online community. New York: Carrol and Graf.

• Harcourt, Wendy, ed. 1999. Women@Internet : Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace. London: Zed Books

• Hildreth, Paul (2003), Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice. Idea Group Publishing

• Hiltz, Starr Roxanne (1985) Online communities: A case study of the office of the future. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

• Hiltz, S.R. and M. Turoff, 1978. The network nation: Human communication via computer, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc, London.

• Hine, Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage

• Holeton, Richard. 1998. Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

• Johnson, Steven (2001) Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, New York Scribner.

• Jones, S. (1997). Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Sage Publications.

• Jones, S. E. (1999). Doing Internet Research. Critical issues and methods for examining the net. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

• Jones, Steven G. (ed.) (2000) Cybersociety 2.0:Revising Computer-Mediated Communication and Community London: Sage

• Jordan, Tim : Cyberpower: The Culture & Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet (1999)

• Kahin, B., and Nesson, C. (eds.). (1997) Borders in Cyberspace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

• Katz, James and Rice, Ron (2002) Social Consequences of Internet Use, The MIT Press; ISBN: 0262112698

• Kerr, E.B. and S.R. Hiltz, 1982. Computer-mediated communications systems: Status and evolution, Academic Press, New York.

• Kisielnicki, Jerzy (ed.) (2002) Modern Organizations in Virtual Communities, IRM Press

• Mann, Chris, and Fiona Stewart. 2000. Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online. London: Sage

• Markham, Annette N. 1998. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press

• Mayer, Paul A., ed. 1999. Computer Media and Communication: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press

• Meyrowitz, Joshua (1985) No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour Oxford: Oxford University Press

• Pesce, M. (2000) The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination (Ballantine, 2000)

• Jenny Preece, Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. See also the Online communities web site, at http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities/

• Renninger, K. Ann and Wesley Shumar (2002), Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

• Rheingold, H. (1993). The Virtual Community. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing.

• Rheingold, H. (2000) Tools for Thought (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000)

• Rheingold, H. (2002) SmartMobs: The Next Social Revolution

• Rosenfeld, Louis & Moreville, Peter (1998) Information Architecture for the World Wide Web O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565922824

• Schuler, D. (1996). New Community Networks: Wired for Change. New York: ACM Press.

• Shields, Rob, ed. 1996. Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. London: Sage

• Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (editors). Communities in Cyberspace 1999. London: Routledge. TOC available http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/communities_00.htm (includes articles of interest by Smith and Kollock, Barry Wellman and Gulia, Elizabeth Reid, Mele (on disadvantaged)

• Sproull, L., and Kiesler, S. (1990) Connections: New ways of working in the networked organization. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

• Trend, David (2001) Reading Digital Culture (2001) London: Blackwells (includes articles by V. Bush, Gibson, Landow, Heim, Zuboff, Turkle, Aronowitz, Castells, Schiller, Nakamura, Rheingold, Ronell)

• Turkle, S. (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.

• Wenger, Etienne (1999) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521663636; 0 edition (December 1, 1999)

• Wenger, Etienne, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice, Harvard Business School Pr; ISBN: 1578513308; 1st edition (March 15, 2002)

• Werry, Chris, and Miranda Mowbray, eds. 2001. Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action and the Virtual University.: Prentice Hall

See also Sheizaf Rafaeli's page, which was the starting point for this bibliography.

Conference Proceedings

Research Issues in the Design of Online Communities