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Resources: On-line Communities and Computer-Mediated Communication

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Barab, S.A., Thomas, M.K., Dodge, T., Squire, K., and Newell, M. (2004). Reflections from the Field Critical Design Ethnography:  Designing for Change. Anthropology and Education Quarterly vol. 35(2), pp. 254-268.

Donath, J. (1998). Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Herring, Susan C. (2003). Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to researching online behavior. Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning, S. A. Barab, R. Kling, and J. H. Gray (Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/cmda.html

Herring, Susan C. (1996). Two variants of an electronic message schema. In Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, S.C. Herring (Ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 81-108.

Herring, Susan C. (Ed.). (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Pragmatics and Beyond series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 324 pp.

Pennebaker, J.W., Francis, M.E., & Booth, R.J. (2001). Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC): LIWC2001 (this includes the manual only). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers.

Preece, J. (2000) Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons

Smith, Marc, and Peter Kollock (editors). 1999. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

Suler, J. (2002). Graphical space in multimedia chat communitie.s In The Psychology of Cyberspace, www.rider.edu/suler/psycyber/basicfeat.html (article orig. pub. 1996) in Chat Communication, Michael Beiswenger (ed.), pp. 305-344. Ibidem, Stuttgart, Germany.

Turkle, Sherry. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Wellman, B. and Gulia, M. (1999).  Virtual Communities are Communites:Surfers Don't Surf Alone. In M. Smith and P. Kollock (ed.) Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.