Literature

Overview

Here is a small selection of literature related to the topic online communities and webbased learning, and guides how to build a community:

Building Online Communities:

• Amy Jo Kim: Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for
  Successful Online Communities, Peachpit Press, Apr 2000



• Cliff Figallo: Hosting Web Communities: Building Relationships,
  Increasing Customer Loyalty and Maintaining a Competitive Edge,
  John Wiley & Sons, Sep 1998



• John Hagel III, Arthur G. Armstrong: Net Gain: Expanding Markets
  Through Virtual Communities,
  Harvard Business School Press, Mar 1997



• Jenny Preece: Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability,
  John Wiley & Sons, Sep 2000



• Chris Werry, Miranda Mowbray: Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action,
  and the Virtual University, Pearson Education, Dec 2000



• Stacey E. Bressler, Charles E. Grantham Sr.: Communities of Commerce: Building
  Internet Business Communities to Accelerate Growth, Minimize Risk,
  and Increase Customer Loyalty, McGraw-Hill Trade, June 2000



• Margaret Levine Young, John R. Levine: Poor Richard's Building Online Communities:
  Create a Web Community for Your Business, Organization, Club, or Family,
  Top Floor Pub, July 2000



• Karla Shelton, Todd McNeeley: Virtual Communities Companion,
  The Coriolis Group, Aug 1997



• Derek M. Powazek: Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People
  in Virtual Places, New Riders, 2001



• Michael Schrage, Tom Peters: Serious Play. How the World's Best Companies
  Simulate to Innovate, Harvard Business School Press, 1999

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Online Collaborative Work:

• Lisa Kimball: Intranet Decisions: Creating Your Organization's Internal Network,
  Miles River Press, Mar 1997



• Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps: Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time,
  and Organizations With Technology, John Wiley & Sons, May 1997



• Maureen James, Liz Rykert: Working Together Online,
  IDRC Books, Aug 1997



• Dori Digenti: The Collaborative Learning Guidebook,
  Learning Mastery Press, June 1999



• Toru Ishida: Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks,
  John Wiley & Sons, July 1998



• James L. Creighton, James W. R. Adams: Cybermeeting: How to Link People
  and Technology in Your Organization, AMACOM, Jan 1998



• Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, Robert Johansen: Globalwork: Bridging Distance, Culture,
  and Time, Jossey-Bass May 1994



• Meg Hartzler, Jane E. Henry: Tools for Virtual Teams: A Team Fitness Companion,
  American Society for Quality, Sep 1997



• Margery Mayer: The Virtual Edge: Embracing Technology for Distributed Project Team Success,
  Project Management Institute, Feb 1999



• Deborah Jude-York, Lauren D. Davis, Susan L. Wise: Virtual Teaming: Breaking the Boundaries
  of Time and Place, Crisp Pubns, Oct 1999



• Raymond Grenier, George Metes: Going Virtual: Moving Your Organization into the 21st Century,
  Prentice Hall PTR, Oct 1995



• Martha Haywood: Managing Virtual Teams: Practical Techniques for High-Technology
  Project Managers , Artech House, Oct 1998



• Deborah L. Duarte, Nancy Tennant Snyder: Mastering Virtual Teams: Strategies, Tools,
  and Techniques That Succeed, Jossey-Bass, Mar 1999



• Jon Udell: Practical Internet Groupware, O'Reilly & Associates, Oct 1999

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Online Classrooms and Distance Learning:

• Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt: Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace:
  Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom, Jossey-Bass, Apr 1999



• Barbara Kurshan: Educator's Guide to Electronic Networking: Creating Virtual Communities,
  DIANE Publishing Co, June 1994



• Gilly Salmon: E-moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online,
  Kogan Page Ltd, Apr 2000



• Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt: Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom: The Realities
  of Online Teaching, Kogan Page Ltd, Mar 2001

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Online Communities and Information Systems:

• Putnam, R.D.: Bowling alone: The collaps and revival of American Community,
  Simon & Schuster, New York 2000



• Ishida, T: Isbister, K.: Digital Cities, Lecture Notes on Computer Science,
  V. 1765, Springer- Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2000



• Gurstein, M.: Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and
  Communication Technologies,
  Idea Group Publishing, Hershey London 2000



• Preece, J.: Online Communities- Designing Usability, Support Sociability
  Wiley, Chichester, 2000



• Rheingold, H.: The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier,
  Revised Edition, MIT Press, Cambridge London, 2000



• Hafner, K.: The Well: A story of love, death & real life in the seminal online community,
  Caroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2001

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Practical approaches:

• Surman, M.; Wershler-Herny, D.: Commonspace, FT.com, London, 2000



• Wenger, E.: Communities of Practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998



• Earnshaw, R. et al.: Fontiers of Human-Centred Computing,
  Online Communities and Virtual Environments, Springer-Verlag 2001



• Tönnies, F.: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1935



• Schuler, D.; Stone, M.: New Community Networks: Wired for Change,
  Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1996



• Cohill, A.M.; Kavanaugh, A.L.: Coummunity Networks: Lessons From Blacksburg, Virginia,
  Artech House, Norwood, 2000



• Bruhold, J.; Merz; Wagner, J.: www.cyber-communities.de, MI, 2000

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