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I received this in email August 17th and have not gotten around to blogging it. I wanted to have something thoughtful to say after reading the articles. FAT CHANCE. So I'm just passing it along... This is a two-fer edition of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communications.

JCMC Vol 10 Issue 4

Special Theme: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
Special Theme: Online Communities
Jenny Preece & Diane Maloney-Krichmar, Guest editors

1. Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice
Jenny Preece & Diane Maloney-Krichmar
This special thematic section brings together nine articles that provide a rich composite of the current research in online communities.
2. Evolution of an Online Forum for Knowledge Management Professionals: A Language Game Analysis
Anne-Laure Fayard & Gerardine DeSanctis
Using Wittgenstein's language game framework, we analyze the evolution of an online discussion forum of information systems professionals in India.
3. Community Networks: Where Offline Communities Meet Online
Andrea Kavanaugh, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Than Than Zin, & Debbie Denise Reese
This study describes findings from longitudinal survey data on the use and social impact of community computer networking in the Blacksburg Electronic Village, a mature online community.
4. Debating the Events of September 11th: Discursive and Interactional Dynamics in Three Online Fora
Laura Robinson
This study examines the constituencies, patterns of interaction, and ideologies in Brazilian, French, and American online fora created to discuss the events of September 11th, 2001.
5. Internet Community Group Participation: Psychosocial Benefits for Women with Breast Cancer
Shelly Rodgers & Qimei Chen
This study finds positive psychosocial benefits of Internet community group participation for women with breast cancer.
6. Evaluation of a Systematic Design for a Virtual Patient Community
Jan Marco Leimeister & Helmut Krcmar
This article describes the evaluation of the design elements and factors that contributed to the success of a virtual community for cancer patients on the German-speaking Internet.
7. Picturing Usenet: Mapping Computer-Mediated Collective Action
Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith, Danyel Fisher, & Howard T. Welser
This work presents visualizations of several aspects and scales of Usenet that combine to highlight the range of variation in communication found in newsgroups.
8. Overcoming Mass Confusion: Collaborative Customer Co-Design in Online Communities
Frank Piller, Petra Schubert, Michael Koch, & Kathrin Möslein
Building on empirical management research, we propose the use of online communities for collaborative customer co-design in order to reduce customer uncertainty and risk.
9. Organizational Virtual Communities: Exploring Motivations Behind Online Panel Participation
Terry Daugherty, Wei-Na Lee, Harsha Gangadharbatla, Kihan Kim, and Sounthaly Outhavong
This article analyzes online panels—opt-in, informed consent, privacy-protected subject pools recruited for Web-based research—as represening a community of participants.
10. Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities
Kimberly Ling, Gerard Beenen, Pamela Ludford, Xiaoqing Wang, Klarissa Chang, Xin Li, Dan Cosley, Dan Frakowski, Loren Terveen, Al Manumur Rashid, Paul Resnick, & Robert Kraut
This study tests design principles derived from social psychological theories in four field experiments involving members of an online movie recommender community.

Special Theme: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
Caroline Haythornthwaite, Guest editor

11. Introduction: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
Caroline Haythornthwaite
This special thematic section includes seven articles that explore collaboration around and through information and communication technologies.
12. Factors Influencing the Co-Evolution of Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems: A Museum Case Study
Paul Marty
This article presents the results from a longitudinal case study of the design and development of a collaborative process to pack and move a museum's collections.
13. Instant Messaging for Collaboration: A Case Study of a High-Tech Firm
Anabel Quan-Haase, Joseph Cothrel, & Barry Wellman
The findings from this study show that while instant messaging leads to higher connectivity and new forms of collaboration, employees also use it to distance themselves from superiors.
14. The Dynamics of Sensemaking, Knowledge, and Expertise in Collaborative, Boundary-Spanning Design
Susan Gasson
This ethnographic study reveals how a project group deals with the contradiction between distributed knowledge in boundary-spanning collaborative processes and the expectation that software systems will provide unified, codified knowledge.
15. Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration in Distributed U.S.-Thai Teams
Saonee Sarker
The validity of the "4 C Framework" of knowledge transfer is examined in the context of cross-cultural distributed teams engaged in information systems development.
16. Collaboration Online: The Example of Distributed Computing
Anne Holohan & Anurag Garg
What makes a collaborative Distributed Computing project successful? This article reports on data from quantitative and qualitative surveys of participants on several online forums.
17. The Use of Instant Messaging in Working Relationship Development: A Case Study
Hee-Kyung Cho, Matthias Trier, & Eunhee Kim
This article examines how instant messaging systems help employees of a Korean organization improve their relationships with their coworkers within and across organizational boundaries.
18. Comparing How Students Collaborate to Learn About the Self and Relationships in a Real-Time Non-Turn-Taking Online and Turn-Taking Face-to-Face Environment
Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer, & Randy Swedburg
A matched study compares participation in collaborative learning in two environments: a traditional university classroom, and the synchronous LBD eClassroom©. The data analysis includes interaction diagrams.

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