ICLS 2000 Proceedings
Individual Change and Cultural Process: Their Role in Virtual Community Building
Wesley Shumar (Organizer and Moderator)
Drexel University, PSA Department,
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Shumarw@drexel.edu
K. Ann Renninger (Organizer and Presenter)
Swarthmore College
Program in Education
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081
krennin1@swarthmore.edu
Linda Polin (Organizer and Presenter)
Pepperdine University
Graduate School of Education and Psychology
400 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230
lpolin@pepperdine.edu
Mark Schlager (Presenter)
Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
schlager@unix.sri.com
William S. Spitzer (Presenter)
New England Aquarium, Central Wharf
Boston, MA 02110-3399
E-mail: bspitzer@neaq.org
Abstract: There are a wide variety of virtual communities, each of which offers metaphors for interaction and paths of communication. In this symposium, discussion focuses on the relation between user and the site. Short presentations of four different sites will be followed by discussion of: (a) how change might be described; (b) the constraints and possibilities inherent in a site; and (c) how the "culture" of a virtual community might be described.
Keywords: computer-mediated communication, learning communities, learning environments
Preferred Citation Format:
Renninger, K.A., Shumar, W., Polin, L., Schlager, M., & Spitzer,
W. (2000). Individual Change and Cultural Process: Their Role
in Virtual Community Building. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss
(Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference
of the Learning Sciences (pp. 372-375). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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