Rebecca's Research Blog

It’s usually acceptable to have lurkers within a community – it’s never acceptable to have lurkers within a team. (Retrieved from my notes on the Virtual Doctoral School back in 2007)

Anesa’s thinking about where the borders of linear programming lie. I’m thinking about where the borders are on virtual communities. A lot of people I read (I’m reading Gary Burnett on information exchange in virtual communites, at the moment) characterise a virtual community as what you see happening online. It’s the people posting and it’s […]

I seem to read a lot about the positive aspects of communities, virtual comunities and learning communities. What are the negative aspects? Has anyone looked at them? Real-world communities often define themselves in terms of the other, in terms of what they are not. Is that true of online communities? Do online communities do that […]