Caroline Haythornthwaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 301286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Haythornthwaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Haythornthwaite |
| SIGNATURE | HAYTHORNTHWAITE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7311-3140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Online Social Networking
Social networking refers to the creation and maintenance of relationships. Online, the term has become all but synonymous with the use of major social media platforms. These platforms connect known and unknown participants around the globe in great numbers. Estimates of monthly active users are in the billions for Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and WeChat; in the multimillions for X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and LinkedIn; and over 100 million fo…
Moderation, Networks, and Anti-Social Behavior Online
Major open platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok, are bombarded with postings that violate platform community standards, offend societal norms, and cause harm to individuals and groups. To manage such sites requires identification of content and behavior that is anti-social and action to remove content and sanction posters. This process is not as straightforward as it seems: what is offensive and to whom varies by individua…
Coding and Classifying Knowledge Exchange on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of the #Twitterstorians and AskHistorians Communities
As social media become a staple for knowledge discovery and sharing, questions arise about how self-organizing communities manage learning outside the domain of organized, authority-led institutions. Yet examination of such communities is challenged by the quantity of posts and variety of media now used for learning. This paper addresses the challenges of identifying (1) what information, communication, and discursive practices support successful…
Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding how social media are applied in teaching in higher education. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, completed by 333 instructors in higher education, that asked about general social media use and specific use in teaching. Education and learning theories suggest three potential reasons for instructors to use social media in their teaching: (1) exposing students to practices, …
Crowdsourcing the curriculum: Redefining e-learning practices through peer-generated approaches
Inclusion of open resources that employ a peer-generated approach is changing who learns what, from whom, and via what means. With these changes, there is a shift in responsibilities from the course designer to motivated and self-directed learner-participants. While much research on e-learning has addressed challenges of creating and sustaining participatory environments, the development of massive open online courses calls for new approaches tha…
Learning Networks
Motivation for Open Collaboration: Crowd and Community Models and the Case of OpenStreetMap
This article presents an examination of motivational factors relating to contribution to the wiki OpenStreetMap, a site for voluntary geographic information. Based on a wide literature review of motivation, open source, volunteerism, and serious leisure, a questionnaire was created and completed by 444 OpenStreetMap contributors. Results of judgments of the motivational importance of 39 reasons for contribution are presented and considered in rel…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Analytics
This introduction to the special issue on learning analytics provides an overview of the area, acknowledging the research traditions it emerges from, such as computer-supported collaborative learning, academic analytics, and educational data mining, and the way the field aims to bridge from technological innovation to learning purposes. The introduction provides examples of areas and educational stakeholders who are served by and can benefit from…
Internet and Community
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Naomi S. Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) ISBN-13: 9780195313055, ISBN-10: 0195313054, $29.95. This short review can hardly do just
Agrupamentos e comunidades: Modelos de produção colaborativa leve e pesada
Two collaborative forms of organizing dominate discussion of open participation and production on the Internet: a crowdsourcing model based on micro-participation from many, unconnected individuals, and a virtual community model, based on strong connections among a committed set of connected members. This paper argues that dimensions such as task interdependence, authority control, and group focus underpin behaviors associated with participation …
Internet in Everyday Life
The Sage Handbook of E-learning Research
Introduction to E-learning Research
This chapter is the Introduction to the Sage Handbook of E-Learning Research (2007), edited by Richard Andrews and Caroline Haythornthwaite. The introduction, written by the editors, is a substantial work that addresses definitional issues about e-learning research; it begins with an exploration of the ???e??? and ???learning??? components in e-learning, and continues with theoretical and methodological issues, and a model and discussion of co-ev…
Theories and models of and for online learning
For many years, discussion of online learning, or e-learning, has been pre-occupied with the practice of teaching online and the debate about whether being online is 'as good as' being offline. The authors contributing to this paper see this past as an incubation period for the emergence of new teaching and learning practices. We see changes in teaching and learning emerging from the nexus of a changing landscape of information and communication …
Articulating Divides in Distributed Knowledge Practice
Working together has always been a challenge but recent trends in who works with whom, on what, and across what regions, cultures, disciplines and time zones have conspired to increase the complexity of team work, and in particular the complexity of knowledge work and communication across knowledge divides. Drawing from literature and examples of practice obtained during research on distributed, collaborative teams, this paper examines constraint…
Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions
This paper explores social support and community development among members of a computer-supported distance learning program. The research focuses on what characterizes this community, and how students define and maintain community while largely restricted to communication through media that have been viewed as unsuitable for the maintenance of close social bonds. Interviews conducted over a year with 17 students reveal the importance of communit…
Studying Online Social Networks
When a computer network connects people or organizations, it is a social network. Yet the study of such computer-supported social networks has not received as much attention as studies of human-computer interaction, online person-to-person interaction, and computer-supported communication within small groups. We argue the usefulness of a social network approach for the study of computer-mediated communication. We review some basic concepts of soc…
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects
This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the strength of the tie between communicating pairs revealed t…
Multiple perspectives on online learning
This paper advocates an approach to the design, use and impact of new learning technologies that incorporates the view from multiple perspectives. This includes considering the questions and goals of students, faculty, administrators and co-workers, as well as social dimensions of learning, professional socialization, family dynamics, career, community formation, and institutional change
Introduction: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together seven articles that consider what it takes to collaborate around and through information and communication technologies. The authors consider how processes co-evolve between practices and technical systems, how knowledge is shared across organizational, cultural and geographic boundaries, how conversation via the informal medium of Instant Messaging is…
Radicals of presentation: Visibility, relation, and co-presence in persistent conversation
When members of an online, distributed learning community revealed that understanding local patterns of communication purpose and form was key to learning how to operate in this environment, we turned to writers on genre and persistent conversation for help in understanding the basis of this community. We derive from genre literature the idea that radicals, that is root characteristics, of presentation exist in computer-mediated environments and …
The Internet in Everyday Life
List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World. (Howard Rheingold). Series Editora s Preface: The Internet and the Network Society . (Manuel Castells). Introduction: The Internet in Everyday Life. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace. The internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part II: The Place Of The Inte…
Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media
This article argues that consideration of the strength of ties be-tween communicators can help reconcile disparate results on the impact of new media on social relations. It is argued from the research literature and studies by the author that where ties are strong, communicators can in uence each other to adapt and ex-pand their use of media to support the exchanges important to their tie, but where ties are weak, communicators are dependent on …
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media
This article argues that consideration of the strength of ties be-tween communicators can help reconcile disparate results on the impact of new media on social relations. It is argued from the research literature and studies by the author that where ties are strong, communicators can in uence each other to adapt and ex-pand their use of media to support the exchanges important to their tie, but where ties are weak, communicators are dependent on …
Studying Online Social Networks
When a computer network connects people or organizations, it is a social network. Yet the study of such computer-supported social networks has not received as much attention as studies of human-computer interaction, online person-to-person interaction, and computer-supported communication within small groups. We argue the usefulness of a social network approach for the study of computer-mediated communication. We review some basic concepts of soc…
Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions
This paper explores social support and community development among members of a computer-supported distance learning program. The research focuses on what characterizes this community, and how students define and maintain community while largely restricted to communication through media that have been viewed as unsuitable for the maintenance of close social bonds. Interviews conducted over a year with 17 students reveal the importance of communit…
Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class
A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of com…
Online Personal Networks: Size, Composition and Media Use among Distance Learners
Personal relationships are noted for intimacy, frequent interaction, the maintenance of multiple relations, face-to-face contact and a desire for proximity. What happens to such relationships when face-to-face contact is unavailable or severely limited? How do pairs maintain personal relationships at a distance and via computer-mediated communication, and what do their personal networks look like under these conditions? Social network data from f…
Motivation for Open Collaboration: Crowd and Community Models and the Case of OpenStreetMap
This article presents an examination of motivational factors relating to contribution to the wiki OpenStreetMap, a site for voluntary geographic information. Based on a wide literature review of motivation, open source, volunteerism, and serious leisure, a questionnaire was created and completed by 444 OpenStreetMap contributors. Results of judgments of the motivational importance of 39 reasons for contribution are presented and considered in rel…
Internet and Community
Radicals of presentation: Visibility, relation, and co-presence in persistent conversation
When members of an online, distributed learning community revealed that understanding local patterns of communication purpose and form was key to learning how to operate in this environment, we turned to writers on genre and persistent conversation for help in understanding the basis of this community. We derive from genre literature the idea that radicals, that is root characteristics, of presentation exist in computer-mediated environments and …
Uses and Gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding how social media are applied in teaching in higher education. Data were collected using an online questionnaire, completed by 333 instructors in higher education, that asked about general social media use and specific use in teaching. Education and learning theories suggest three potential reasons for instructors to use social media in their teaching: (1) exposing students to practices, …
Introduction: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together seven articles that consider what it takes to collaborate around and through information and communication technologies. The authors consider how processes co-evolve between practices and technical systems, how knowledge is shared across organizational, cultural and geographic boundaries, how conversation via the informal medium of Instant Messaging is…
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
Using SAS to Convert Ego-Centred Networks to Whole Networks
L'utilisation de SAS pour convertir des réseaux ego en réseaux complets. Cet article présente une technique utilisant le logiciel SAS pour convertir des données de réseaux centrés sur des individus (réseaux ego) en données de réseaux complets de relations. Jusqu'à maintenant, ces deux types de réseaux ont été généralement analysés séparément et avec des méthodes distinctes
Moderation, Networks, and Anti-Social Behavior Online
Major open platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok, are bombarded with postings that violate platform community standards, offend societal norms, and cause harm to individuals and groups. To manage such sites requires identification of content and behavior that is anti-social and action to remove content and sanction posters. This process is not as straightforward as it seems: what is offensive and to whom varies by individua…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Analytics
This introduction to the special issue on learning analytics provides an overview of the area, acknowledging the research traditions it emerges from, such as computer-supported collaborative learning, academic analytics, and educational data mining, and the way the field aims to bridge from technological innovation to learning purposes. The introduction provides examples of areas and educational stakeholders who are served by and can benefit from…
Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class
A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of com…
Juggling Multiple Social Worlds: Distance Students Online and Offline
Using the Internet means bringing into our offline lives yet another social world, one in which we operate through media, communicating and maintaining ties with people who live at a distance and who we may rarely or never meet. How successfully do we manage integration of this new world into our existing world? Do worlds collide or seamlessly integrate into a cohesive whole? For 1 year, the authors followed 17 students as they engaged in a dista…
Using SAS to Convert Ego-Centred Networks to Whole Networks
L'utilisation de SAS pour convertir des réseaux ego en réseaux complets. Cet article présente une technique utilisant le logiciel SAS pour convertir des données de réseaux centrés sur des individus (réseaux ego) en données de réseaux complets de relations. Jusqu'à maintenant, ces deux types de réseaux ont été généralement analysés séparément et avec des méthodes distinctes
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Online Personal Networks: Size, Composition and Media Use among Distance Learners
Personal relationships are noted for intimacy, frequent interaction, the maintenance of multiple relations, face-to-face contact and a desire for proximity. What happens to such relationships when face-to-face contact is unavailable or severely limited? How do pairs maintain personal relationships at a distance and via computer-mediated communication, and what do their personal networks look like under these conditions? Social network data from f…
Bridging the Subdisciplines: An Overview of Communication and Technology Research
Communication and technology (CAT) research is concerned with the development, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) across all types of social, cultural, and institutional settings. Technology includes the artifacts or devices that enable and extend our abilities to communicate, the communication activities or practices in which we engage when developing and using those devices, and the social arrangements o…
Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class
A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of com…
Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class
A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of com…
Juggling Multiple Social Worlds: Distance Students Online and Offline
Using the Internet means bringing into our offline lives yet another social world, one in which we operate through media, communicating and maintaining ties with people who live at a distance and who we may rarely or never meet. How successfully do we manage integration of this new world into our existing world? Do worlds collide or seamlessly integrate into a cohesive whole? For 1 year, the authors followed 17 students as they engaged in a dista…
The Internet in Everyday Life
List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World. (Howard Rheingold). Series Editora s Preface: The Internet and the Network Society . (Manuel Castells). Introduction: The Internet in Everyday Life. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace. The internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part II: The Place Of The Inte…
Strong, Weak, and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media
This article argues that consideration of the strength of ties be-tween communicators can help reconcile disparate results on the impact of new media on social relations. It is argued from the research literature and studies by the author that where ties are strong, communicators can in uence each other to adapt and ex-pand their use of media to support the exchanges important to their tie, but where ties are weak, communicators are dependent on …
Radicals of presentation: Visibility, relation, and co-presence in persistent conversation
When members of an online, distributed learning community revealed that understanding local patterns of communication purpose and form was key to learning how to operate in this environment, we turned to writers on genre and persistent conversation for help in understanding the basis of this community. We derive from genre literature the idea that radicals, that is root characteristics, of presentation exist in computer-mediated environments and …
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects
This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the strength of the tie between communicating pairs revealed t…
Multiple perspectives on online learning
This paper advocates an approach to the design, use and impact of new learning technologies that incorporates the view from multiple perspectives. This includes considering the questions and goals of students, faculty, administrators and co-workers, as well as social dimensions of learning, professional socialization, family dynamics, career, community formation, and institutional change
Introduction: Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices
This special thematic section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together seven articles that consider what it takes to collaborate around and through information and communication technologies. The authors consider how processes co-evolve between practices and technical systems, how knowledge is shared across organizational, cultural and geographic boundaries, how conversation via the informal medium of Instant Messaging is…
Articulating Divides in Distributed Knowledge Practice
Working together has always been a challenge but recent trends in who works with whom, on what, and across what regions, cultures, disciplines and time zones have conspired to increase the complexity of team work, and in particular the complexity of knowledge work and communication across knowledge divides. Drawing from literature and examples of practice obtained during research on distributed, collaborative teams, this paper examines constraint…
Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions
This paper explores social support and community development among members of a computer-supported distance learning program. The research focuses on what characterizes this community, and how students define and maintain community while largely restricted to communication through media that have been viewed as unsuitable for the maintenance of close social bonds. Interviews conducted over a year with 17 students reveal the importance of communit…
Studying Online Social Networks
When a computer network connects people or organizations, it is a social network. Yet the study of such computer-supported social networks has not received as much attention as studies of human-computer interaction, online person-to-person interaction, and computer-supported communication within small groups. We argue the usefulness of a social network approach for the study of computer-mediated communication. We review some basic concepts of soc…
The Sage Handbook of E-learning Research
Introduction to E-learning Research
This chapter is the Introduction to the Sage Handbook of E-Learning Research (2007), edited by Richard Andrews and Caroline Haythornthwaite. The introduction, written by the editors, is a substantial work that addresses definitional issues about e-learning research; it begins with an exploration of the ???e??? and ???learning??? components in e-learning, and continues with theoretical and methodological issues, and a model and discussion of co-ev…
Theories and models of and for online learning
For many years, discussion of online learning, or e-learning, has been pre-occupied with the practice of teaching online and the debate about whether being online is 'as good as' being offline. The authors contributing to this paper see this past as an incubation period for the emergence of new teaching and learning practices. We see changes in teaching and learning emerging from the nexus of a changing landscape of information and communication …
Internet in Everyday Life
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Naomi S. Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) ISBN-13: 9780195313055, ISBN-10: 0195313054, $29.95. This short review can hardly do just
Agrupamentos e comunidades: Modelos de produção colaborativa leve e pesada
Two collaborative forms of organizing dominate discussion of open participation and production on the Internet: a crowdsourcing model based on micro-participation from many, unconnected individuals, and a virtual community model, based on strong connections among a committed set of connected members. This paper argues that dimensions such as task interdependence, authority control, and group focus underpin behaviors associated with participation …
Internet and Community
Motivation for Open Collaboration: Crowd and Community Models and the Case of OpenStreetMap
This article presents an examination of motivational factors relating to contribution to the wiki OpenStreetMap, a site for voluntary geographic information. Based on a wide literature review of motivation, open source, volunteerism, and serious leisure, a questionnaire was created and completed by 444 OpenStreetMap contributors. Results of judgments of the motivational importance of 39 reasons for contribution are presented and considered in rel…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Analytics
This introduction to the special issue on learning analytics provides an overview of the area, acknowledging the research traditions it emerges from, such as computer-supported collaborative learning, academic analytics, and educational data mining, and the way the field aims to bridge from technological innovation to learning purposes. The introduction provides examples of areas and educational stakeholders who are served by and can benefit from…
Computer Science (27 works) · Psychology (19 works) · World Wide Web (17 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · The Internet (11 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (10 works) · Online and Blended Learning (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social media (10 works)