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