How can educators leverage blogs and other social media spaces to encourage a reflective, critical discourse about civic engagement that fosters a true learning exchange over promoting one’s own ideas? This article reports upon a single case study of the “Community Engagement Learning Exchange,” a multi-author blog on civic engagement. Through qualitative content analysis and expert interviews ...

An exploratory study of students’ engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of students (pre-service teachers) and experts (experienced in-service schoolteachers and academics), is the study’s primary focus. Students’ interaction and knowledge discourse structures, arising from individual readings of academic paper...

The growing popularity of Agile methods motivates our interest in its value foundations, publicized in information technology (IT) community discourse. IT community discourses provide key functions of interpretation, legitimization and mobilization. Conceptualized as organizing visions, these community discourses provide knowledge about how an IT innovation, such as Agile, should be applied in ...

Viewed within its activity system, learning is a social process in which artifacts – whether physical, digital or linguistic – play central roles. Even individual learning is immersed in contexts of collaborative learning, in which communities define structures of meaning, goals of research, distribution of tasks and audiences for new knowledge. The field of Computer Supported Collaborative Lea...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to simulate development of a community oral health plan using technology-based tools at the students' disposal. The specific research questions were: Will students use the Internet to identify community oral health issues and develop solutions to address the issues? Will blogs be a good tool to discuss and engage students in conversation with each other a...

More and more games incorporate mechanics for creating content these days. Even though there is substantial research regarding the modification communities for PC games, gaming ecosystems that are based solely on User-Generated Content are underexplored. The aim of this study is the investigation of how the gaming experience is formed inside the community of LittleBigPlanet through the use of d...

This paper examines the representational requirements for interactive, collaborative systems intended to support sensemaking and argumentation over contested issues. We argue that a perspective supported by semiotic and cognitively oriented discourse analyses offers both theoretical insights and motivates representational requirements for the semantics of tools for contesting meaning. We introd...

This presentation is focused on the connections between online community and commerce/economics, particularly the rhetoric of community as it has been taken up by those in e-commerce endeavors. It makes the case that the most influential symbol for online community, the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link) should be examined in light of sociocultural trends apart from Internet-related ones, most ...

Although both communities share a common object of research, the Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) community from the German-speaking countries and the Information Systems (IS) community centered in North America have developed quite differently. The BISE community features promote connections with industry, attractive topics to students and practical relevance of publications...

<p>This article discusses the concept of discourse community in context language-related research digital transformation. In a system-theoretical interpretation digitalization, understanding 'discourse community' can become more profound. This new insight allows to analytically separate analog approaches and communities with references basic applied linguistics. The points out fundamental...