Learning in virtual communities ranges across many settings, requiring connective ethnography and analysis at multiple units of analysis¶

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q1 i? Learning is an important part of participation in virtual communities and ranges across many settings, requiring data analysis at multiple units of analysis. → Gerry Stahl 2008

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl 2008¶

Gerry Stahl. (2008). Yes we can! Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-008-9055-3

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The editorial describes Fields and Kafai's connective ethnography of pre-teenage newcomers to a virtual community learning about a desirable virtual meeting place called "the moon" and how to get there, connecting server logs, video, field notes and interviews.

"To document how community members are socialized into community practices like meeting on the moon, the researchers had to "connect" data from diverse ethnographic sources: server log data, video recordings, field notes, and interviews."

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