Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof. Thanks. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
Bonnie, I would think that a good person to ask this question of would be Ira Shor at CUNY [Paolo Friere collaborator...]. I'm sure that you'll get other answers and pointers, too, but Ira's take will likely be quite interesting. :) --elijah On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Bonnie Nardi wrote:
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:18:20 -0800 From: Bonnie Nardi <nardi@ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] social class and online community
Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof.
Thanks.
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Bonnie
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Hello Bonnie You might find the following of interest: 'New Patterns of Power and Participation? Designing ICT for Informal and Community Learning' John Cook, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Ann Light, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom E-Learning, Volume 3 Number 1 2006, ISSN 1741-8887 You'll find it online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_1.asp <http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_1.asp> Best wishes Ray Land ***************************************************************************** Professor Ray Land Director, Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement University of Strathclyde Graham Hills Building 50 George Street Glasgow G1 1QE t: 0141 548 2636 f: 0141 553 2053 e: ray.land@strath.ac.uk <mailto:ray.land@strath.ac.uk> w: http://personal.strath.ac.uk/ray.land <http://personal.strath.ac.uk/ray.land> ICE3 Symposium: 'Digital difference'. Loch Lomond, Scotland 21-23 March 2007 http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3 <http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/ice3> Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge http://www.routledge.com <http://www.routledge.com/> ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Bonnie Nardi Sent: Sat 06/01/2007 18:18 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] social class and online community Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof. Thanks. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <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/
You did say any and all aspects (of class) and I would suggest you look at marxist class analysis of the computer age predating on-line communities. I read this book a few years back for instance. Perelman, Michael Class warfare in the information age (New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's, 1998) Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Junior Statistical Clerk Statistics Canada Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. On 6-Jan-07, at 1:18 PM, Bonnie Nardi wrote:
Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof.
Thanks.
--
Bonnie
Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/
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Yes, the issue of class in computing generally was of special interest to noted ethnographer David Hakken, and I would suggest that his/Barbara Andrew's research applies as well (with some new wrinkles of course) to online coummities: Hakken, D., & with Andrews, B. 1993. Computing myths, class realities: An ethnography of technology and working people in Sheffield, England. Boulder: Westview Press. Hakken, D. 1991. If computing is a cultural process, what constructs should inform its practice? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL Hakken, D. 1993. Computing and social change: New technology and workplace transformation, 1980-1990. In Annual Review of Anthropology (Vol. 22, pp. 107-132). Actually my PhD thesis looks at internet scholarship as a potential exercise in cross-purposes between academic theory and real life pursuit of knowledge in the community of internet scholars, and to explicate that arena, I used Hoggart: Hoggart, R. 1957. The uses of literacy: Aspects of working-class life, with special reference to publications and entertainments. London: Chatto & Windus. Of course it is a different use of Hoggart's theory as the working-class became an extended metaphor for "real life pursuit of knowledge" rather than a measure related to class itself. But Hoggart's tensions between 'home' and 'school' might be useful within virtual worlds. If this makes no sense query me off list, thanks! Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 23 33 44 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
I may be a little late in joining but my research on female fan communities focusses on the intersection of gender and class (as a mobilization of linguistic capital). Bury, R. (2004). Language on (the) line: class, community and the David Duchovny Estrogen Brigades. Electronic Journal of Communication, 14 (1-2). To be retrieved at <http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm>. Bury, R. (2005). Cyberspaces of Their Own. Peter Lang: New York. Rhiannon Bury Assistant Professor and Interim Director Women's Studies University of Waterloo rbury@uwaterloo.ca Denise N. Rall wrote:
Yes, the issue of class in computing generally was of special interest to noted ethnographer David Hakken, and I would suggest that his/Barbara Andrew's research applies as well (with some new wrinkles of course) to online coummities:
Hakken, D., & with Andrews, B. 1993. Computing myths, class realities: An ethnography of technology and working people in Sheffield, England. Boulder: Westview Press.
Hakken, D. 1991. If computing is a cultural process, what constructs should inform its practice? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL
Hakken, D. 1993. Computing and social change: New technology and workplace transformation, 1980-1990. In Annual Review of Anthropology (Vol. 22, pp. 107-132).
Actually my PhD thesis looks at internet scholarship as a potential exercise in cross-purposes between academic theory and real life pursuit of knowledge in the community of internet scholars, and to explicate that arena, I used Hoggart: Hoggart, R. 1957. The uses of literacy: Aspects of working-class life, with special reference to publications and entertainments. London: Chatto & Windus.
Of course it is a different use of Hoggart's theory as the working-class became an extended metaphor for "real life pursuit of knowledge" rather than a measure related to class itself. But Hoggart's tensions between 'home' and 'school' might be useful within virtual worlds.
If this makes no sense query me off list, thanks!
Denise
Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 23 33 44 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html
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