From Personal to Community Spaces: Interplay between Boundary Construction and Deconstruction

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Esnault, L., Gillet, D. & Rossier-Morel, A. (2008). From Personal to Community Spaces: Interplay between Boundary Construction and Deconstruction. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 1240-1244). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2008
Vienna, Austria
June 30, 2008
AACE

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Authors

Liliane Esnault, EM LYON, France; Denis Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland; Annick Rossier-Morel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Abstract

The boundaries existing between personal and community spaces may be considered as limitations towards efficient interaction and effective learning in communities of practice. The continuous construction and deconstruction (negotiation) of these boundaries are instrumental in the development of personal and community (collective) identity, as well as meta-competences acquisition (i.e. learning to learn collaboratively). The intrinsic plasticity of Web 2.0 social software can be seen as an artifact for negotiation. As a consequence, developers and users can collaboratively reify their respective practices. In other words, plasticity of software induces plasticity of practices. The paper presents the collaborative design approach adopted be the mediators of social software and communities of practice to foster innovative design, individual appropriation and community adoption of new interaction schemes.

Keywords

• Community
• Interaction
• Software

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