Re: [liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Yosem! Networks of practice seems to be a useful phrase for turning up relevant research in the CMC and management literature, and group evolution for the SNA literature. Cheers, Michael On 02/09/13 20:20, Yosem Companys wrote:

[liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Does anyone on the list know of any research into the way people communicate in ad hoc groups? By an ad hoc group I mean a group formed for the duration of a particular communication, such as the list of people CCed in an email thread, as

Re: [liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-02 Thread Yosem Companys
Computer-mediated communication literature has been studying this since the 1980s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication The field has its own journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1083-6101 Sociological approaches have studied how the choice to