Blogs: Resonance and online relations

Lilia Efimova on her blog – http://blog.mathemagenic.com/ - seems also to be asking questions about how and why some relationships can be formed, developed and sustained in  blogs. She asks the question: What exactly helps to establish and maintain personal relations via blogging? and suggests that one answer to this question might be in the frequency [...]

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Network or community?

This question keep cropping up for me. Could this course be considered a community? In some ways it must be.

We are all gathered around a domain – connectivism,
We are all sharing practice  – Are we? Is what we are doing sharing practice? Even for those who are sharing, is it sharing practice?
 And we are learning [...]

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Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism

Here is the abstract of an interesting article by Barry Wellman
Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This papertraces how communities have changed from densely-knit “Little Boxes” (densely-knit, linking people door-to-door) to “Glocalized” networks (sparselyknitbut with clusters, linking households [...]

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