Preface K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar; Foreword: virtual communities
for learning and development: a look to the past and some glimpses into the
future Michael Cole; Introduction: on conceptualizing community Wesley
Shumar and K. Ann Renninger; Part I. Types of Community: 1. The mystery of
the death of Mediamoo: seven years of evolution of an online community Amy
Bruckman and Carlos Jensen; 2. Female voices in virtual reality: drawing
young girls into an on-line world Ann Locke Davidson and Janet Ward
Shofield; 3. Community building with and for teachers at the math forum K.
Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar; 4. Learning in the virtual community
depends upon changes in local communities Beverly Hunter; Part II.
Structure and Community: 5. Evolution of an on-line education community of
practice Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco and Patricia Schank; 6. Building
social networks via computer networks: creating and sustaining distributed
learning communities Caroline Haythornthwaite; 7. Mask and identity: the
hermeneutics of self construction in the information age Dorian Wiszniewski
and Richard Coyne; 8. WISE learning communities: design considerations Alex
J. Cuthbert, Douglas B. Clark and Marcia C. Linn; Part III. Possibilities
for Community: 9. Reflexive modernization and the emergence of wired
self-help Roger Burrows and Sarah Nettleton; 10. Understanding the
lifecycles of network-based learning communities James Levin and Raoul
Cervantes; 11. Learning in cyberspace: an educational view of virtual
community D. Jason Nolan and Joel Weiss; 12. Finding the ties that bind:
tools in support of a knowledge-building community Christopher M. Hoadley
and Roy D. Pea; Afterword: building our knowledge of virtual community:
some responses David Hakken; Afterword: building, buying, or being there:
imagining online community Steven G. Jones.
