I've been alerted that the JCMC url below (the original one when the paper was published) now goes to a spam site. It's better than the last time I made this mistake, when it went to a pornographic site :( ... memo to self, update my own URLs! Here's the current URL for the Haythornthwaite et al paper: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html /C

Caroline Haythornthwaite wrote:

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See the longitudinal study I did with colleagues on an online learning environment (2000, in JCMC). We used as a base much of the literature on group processes, including group development over time. A bit more of a review on that literature is also in a JALN piece from 2006.

Michelle Kazmer's work looks specifically at the group ending process -- the 'disengagement' from online groups. See her dissertation work or the paper in NMS (2007).

/Caroline

Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M.M., Robins, J. & Shoemaker, S. (2000). Community development among distance learners: Temporal and technological dimensions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html

Haythornthwaite, C. (February, 2006). Facilitating collaboration in online learning. Journal of Asynchronous Learning, 10(1). http://www.sloan- c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp

Kazmer, M. M. (2007). Beyond C U L8R: Disengaging from online social worlds. New Media and Society, 9, 111-138.

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:38:41 +0100 From: "Ulrike Pfeil" <UlrikePfeil@gmx.net> Subject: [Air-L] Longitudinal qualitative analysis of CMC To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org

Hello everybody, I am interested in doing longitudinal qualitative analysis of asynchronous

online communities in order to analyse the development of the online community over time (e.g. looking at how people develop a sense of community, how communication and interaction patterns change over time, how people take on or abandon certain roles within the community etc.).

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However, I am having a hard time finding methodological guidance on how to

go about it (the longitudinal part). Does anybody have experience with longitudinal qualitative analysis of CMC or can recommend literature that might help me? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Kind regards,

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