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Building Virtual Communities examines how learning and cognitive change are fostered by online communities. Contributors to this volume explore this question by drawing on their different theoretical backgrounds, methodologies, and personal experience with virtual communities. This book will interest educators, psychologists, sociologists, and researchers in human- computer interaction.

This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers from a social perspective focusing on computers. It is based on life-history interviews, ethnographic observations in homes and factories, survey materials and microanalysis of human computer interaction.

An international, interdisciplinary overview of research on activity theory, first published in 1999. Activity theory bridges the gulf between the individual subject and the societal structure by taking the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity as its unit of analysis.

The chapters in this 2004 volume explore the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions with respect to designing for and researching web-based communities to support learning. Taken as a collection, these manuscripts point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for web-supported community.