Network Analysis of Knowledge Construction in Asynchronous Learning Networks

Network Analysis of Knowledge Construction in Asynchronous Learning Networks
So anyhow, James Farmer wrote a bit on the structure of communication in personal publishing, I passed along some links to copnnectionism, James pondered this a bit, and Lindon commented, "I think you should just call it 'Social Publishing' and be done with it." Social publishing, social networking: this is all a topic of numerous recent studies, including the excellent analysis I cite here. The point of the paper is to test whether "it follows that different design characteristics of online discussion groups result in significant differences in network structures leading to different phases of critical thinking" and the quality of the social network analysis is as good as I have seen. More...