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Online Communities

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Chair

Prof. Andrew Thatcher
University of the Witwatersrand
Psychology Department, WITS, 2050, South Africa
andrew.thatcher@wits.ac.za

Co-Chairs

Dr. Francoise Detienne
Research Director, Telecom Paris Tech
46 rue Barrault
75636 Paris
Cedex 13
francoise.detienne@telecom-paristech.fr

Dr. Peter Budnick
President and CEO, Ergoweb
Ergobuyer, LLC
5532 Lillehammer Lane, Suite 200
Park City, UT 84098 USA
budnick@ergoweb.com

Objectives

  1. Finalize scope and areas of research and practical interest.

  2. Following this, to stimulate research endeavors within this area.

  3. Symposium or session of papers scheduled for IEA 2009, Beijing.

Structure

Since this is a new Technical Group, there is no complex structure; we would invite anyone who is interested to contact the Chair or one of the Principal Members or to participate in the discussions on the IEA website .

Action Plan

Activities

Description
Responsible
Milestone/ Timeline
Deliverable/Timeline
1. Finalize scope and areas of interest
Establish the Technical Group
Core group, Chair
February 2008, although this is ongoing
Proposal to IEA, February 2008
2. Stimulate research endeavors
Build the Technical Group membership.
Core Group, Chair
August 2009
One full session of 5 papers for IEA Congress in August 2009
3. IEA 2009 Symposium
Run one full session of 5 papers for IEA Congress in August 2009
Chair
Papers submitted by November 2008
One full session of 5 papers for IEA Congress in August 2009

Weblinks

The ‘Online Communities’ Technical Committee’s blogspot

The Technical Committee’s discussion forum on the IEA website

The Technical Committee’s conference series