Hi Maria, Here are some articles that I recommend for you to read: Fish, Adam, Murillo, Luis F. R., Nguyen, Lilly, Panofsky, Aaron, & Kelty, Christopher M. (2011). Birds of the Internet : Towards a field guide to the organization and governance of participation. Journal of Cultural Economy, 4(2), 157-187. doi: 10.1080/17530350.2011.563069 Hrastinski, Stefan. (2008). What is online learner participation? A literature review. Computers & Education, 51(4), 1755-1765. Quick, Kathryn S., & Feldman, Martha S. (2011). Distinguishing Participation and Inclusion. Journal of Planning Education and Research. doi: 10.1177/0739456x11410979 Sanford, Clive, & Rose, Jeremy. (2007). Characterizing eParticipation. International Journal of Information Management, 27(6), 406-421. Wexler, Mark N. (2011). Reconfiguring the sociology of the crowd: exploring crowdsourcing. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 31(1/2), 6-20. In any case, the concept of "participation" is very broad and ambiguous. All social action can be defined as participation, whenever there is agency (not just determinist behaviour / forced labour). Maybe you could start with definining: who are participating? where? when? why? how? what participation? facilitated by whom? Good luck with your research! with kind regards, Arto Lanamäki Lecturer University of Agder, Norway ________________________________________ Lähettäjä: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] käyttäjän MM Veloso [mmcv2012@gmail.com] puolesta Lähetetty: 14. lokakuuta 2012 3:43 Vastaanottaja: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Aihe: [Air-L] Web 2.0 Hi everyone, I`m doing a research about the influence of web 2.0 in participation (or e-participation). At this moment I`m interested in the web 2.0 definition and web 3.0 definition. Can anyone recommend some must-read articles about web 2.0/web 3.0? Thank you Maria Manuel (PhD student at University of Minho, Portugal) _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/