Designing Online Communities - How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for guidance on how to design online communities toward particular objectives. Through analysis of this "how-to" literature, Designing Online Communities explores the discourse of design and configuration that partially structures online communities and later social networks. Tracking the history of notions of community in these books suggests the emergence of a logic of permission and control. Online community defies many conventional notions of community. Participants are increasingly treated as "users", or even as commodities themselves to be used. Through consideration of the particular tactics of these administrators, this book suggests how researchers should approach the study and analysis of the records of online communities.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, 72
Release date:	February 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Trevor Owens
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	139
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2847-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Learning Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	1-4331-2847-0
Barcode:	9781433128479

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