Intergroup communication and the Internet Dear Joyce, this is a topic that I am also interested in. If you have found other resources on the topic I would like to read them. I can recommend the following readings: Haythornthwaite, C. and B. Wellman (1998). Work, friendship and media use for information exchange in a networked organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(12): 1101-1114. Koku, E., N. Nazer, and B. Welllman (2001). Netting scholars: Online and offline. American Behavioral Scientist 43(Special issue: Mapping Globalization): 1750-1772. Bradner, E. (2000). Sociological constructs of small groups in the workplace: What are "teams" and how are they "virtual"? Workshop on Virtually Collocated Teams in the Workplace at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, The Hague, Netherlands, 1-6 April 2000. Cothrel, J. and R. Williams (1999). On-line communities: Getting the most out of on-line discussion and collaboration. Knowledge Management Review. 6. 2001. Garton, L., C. Haythornthwaite, et al. (1997). Studying On-line Social Networks. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 3(1): website: http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol3/issue1/garton.html. I hope this helps, Anabel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anabel Quan Haase (PhD student) University of Toronto McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology NetLab Knowledge Media Design Institute Faculty of Information Studies 140 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3G6 Fax. 416-978-5762 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------