Angelina .. I co-authored a chapter with Sally Mavor which was about barriers to participation in international communities. We followed a non-English speaking participant in a post-graduate course run by a British University. As we say in the intro: "The apparent ease with which a student can join an international learning community often masks discoursal, socio-political and cultural barriers to effective participation and learning." Mavor, S. & Trayner, B. (2003) “Exclusion in international online learning communities”. In Electronic Learning Communities: Current Issues and Best Practices, Reisman, S. (eds) Conneticut: Information Age Publishing. If international barriers interests you, I can let you have copies of that chapter, and other related stuff, including... Trayner, B., Smith, J. & Bettoni, M. (forthcoming) “Participation in International Virtual Learning Communities: a Social Learning Perspective”. In Web Information Systems and Technologies. Springer Publishers. Trayner, B. (2004) “Babel in the international café: a respectful critique”. In Communities and Technologies, Huysman, M. Wenger, E. Wulf, V. (eds) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Available for download from this page. (available for dowload - http://iisi.de/ 114.0.html) Cheers Bev http://www.phronesis.typepad.com On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Angelina Karpovich wrote:
Could anyone recommend any sources (particularly qualitative) exploring individual barriers to online participation? I'm aware of Honnecke and Preece's work on lurkers, but I wonder if other kinds of barriers to participation have also been identified.
Thanks,
Angelina.
Angelina Karpovich Lecturer in Multimedia School of Engineering & Design Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH UK
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