Rebecca's Research Blog

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 […]