Re: [Air-l] social class and online community
On 6 Jan 2007, at 21:06, Bonnie Nardi wrote:
Does anyone know of studies of social class and online communities? Any and all aspects thereof.
Although this is something of a preoccupation of mine the only reference which leaps to hand is Farquharson, K. (2006) "“What Do You Do?” the Disclosure of Class Online". in AoIR 7, Brisbane, Australia. It isn't downloadable but the author KFarquharson@groupwise.swin.edu.au may be willing to send you her presentation and hopefully will pop up here with some of the references she used. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
I received some very helpful replies to this question. Thanks everyone!! Much appreciated. Here's a compiliation of the references since some were received out of list: Farquharson, K. (2006) "“What Do You Do?” the Disclosure of Class Online". in AoIR 7, Brisbane, Australia Peter Sawchuk’s (2003) ‘Technology and Adult Learning in Adult Life’, Cambridge University Press is excellent, though not specifically about online communities. Walker, S. & Creanor, L. (2005) Crossing complex boundaries: transnational online education in European trade unions, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 21 343-354 Creanor, L. & Walker, S. (2005) Learning architectures and the negotiation of meaning in European trade unions, ALT-J 13(2) 109-124 Creanor, L. & Walker, S. (2005) Trade Union Use of ICT in Learning, TUC '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 Iske, S., Klein, A., Kutscher, N. (2005): Differences in web usage - social inequality and informal education on the internet. In: Social Work and Society, Volume 3 (2005), Issue 2. URL: http://www.socwork.de/IskeKleinKutscher2005.pdf Otto, H.-U./Kutscher, N./Klein, A./Iske, S. (2005): Social Inequality in the Virtual Space: How Do Young People Use the Internet? Results from Empirical Research about Online Use Differences and Acquiring Patterns of Young People. URL: http://www.kib-bielefeld.de/externelinks2005/ Social_Inequality%20KIB.pdf Best wishes, -- 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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