Hi, nice to meet you, Stephanie!

I guess there is a lot on online culture, online community etc, but I do not know if the modern approach to Internet would talk about "group dynamics". Let us see what the others say!  Anyhow, on this AiR-list you'll get a lot of the first mentioned concepts.

Anyhow, let me shamelessly promote myself, and thereby also some approaches to "chat":

Teresa Cerratto and Yvonne Waern (2000). Chatting to Learn and Learning to Chat in Collaborative Virtual Environments".  M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture. Special issue on "chat". Issue Editors: Felicity Meakins & E. Sean Rintel . August 23, 2000. http://moby.curtin.edu.au/~ausstud/mc/0008/learning1.html

Good luck with your search!
Yvonne





I've been seeking literature on small group dynamics online - can anyone point me to anything specific?  Maybe in organization/management or some other applied context?  At this point, anything that seems remotely close would be a big help!
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