A structuration approach to online communities of practice: The case of Q&A communities
| Main Authors: | Shachaf, Pnina, Rosenbaum, Howard |
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most research on Q&A sites has focused attention on information retrieval,
information seeking behavior, and information intermediation and has
assumed uncritically that the online Q&A community plays an important role
in these domains of study. Assuming instead that research on online
communities should take into account social, technical, and contextual factors
(Kling, Rosenbaum, & Sawyer, 2005), the utility of this approach is
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Shachaf, Pnina Rosenbaum, Howard |
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A structuration approach to online communities of practice: The case of Q&A communities |
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2010 |
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B. Information use and sociology of information |
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http://eprints.rclis.org/15528/1/structurationapproach.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/15528/ |
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This article describes an approach based on structuration theory (Giddens,
1979, 1984; Orlikowski, 1992, 2000) and communities of practice (Wenger,
1998) that can be used to guide investigation into the dynamics of online
question and answer (Q&A) communities. This approach is useful because
most research on Q&A sites has focused attention on information retrieval,
information seeking behavior, and information intermediation and has
assumed uncritically that the online Q&A community plays an important role
in these domains of study. Assuming instead that research on online
communities should take into account social, technical, and contextual factors
(Kling, Rosenbaum, & Sawyer, 2005), the utility of this approach is
demonstrated with an analysis of three online Q&A communities seen as
communities of practice. This article makes a theoretical contribution to the
study of online Q&A communities and, more generally, to the domain of social
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