Building virtual communities : learning and change in cyberspace / edited by K. Ann Renninger, Wesley Shumar.
"From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attemp...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Learning in doing.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Sample text |
| Summary: | "From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to explain how, within a given social and cultural context, individuals make sense of impending crisis. In particular it tries to explain the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor. Using a social psychological framework it highlights emotional factors which are a key component of responses to risk but have hitherto been neglected due to the tendency of much work on risk to concentrate almost exclusively on cognitive processing. This book will appeal to an international audience of post-graduates, academics and researchers in the areas of risk, psychology, sociology, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic studies.; ; ; RECORD: .b23604141; URL: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001052485.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001052485; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for Building virtual communities : learning and change in cyberspace / edited by K. Ann Renninger, Wesley Shumar.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.; Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. Contributors to this volume explore this question by drawing on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies, and personal experience with virtual communities. Each chapter discusses the different meanings of the terms community, learning, and change. Case studies are included for further clarification. Together, these chapters describe the building out of virtual communities in terms that are relevant to theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The chapters provide a basis for thinking about the dynamics of Internet community building. This includes consideration of the role of the self or individual as a participant in virtual community, and the design and refinement of technology as the conduit for extending and enhancing the possibilities of community building in cyberspace. Building Virtual Communities will interest educators, psychologists, sociologists, and researchers in human-computer interaction."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 380 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511040903 9780511040900 0511050143 9780511050145 0511158262 9780511158261 0511177291 9780511177293 0511606370 9780511606373 1280429690 9781280429699 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511606373 |