A Community of Practice Using Computer -Mediated Communication for Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Isenhour, John Lawrence
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Description
Title
A Community of Practice Using Computer -Mediated Communication for Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Author(s)
Isenhour, John Lawrence
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Geoffrey Bowker
Department of Study
Library and Information Science
Discipline
Library and Information Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, General
Language
eng
Abstract
"Communities of Practice rely upon the enculturation of newcomers into the community for maintenance and stability over time. Lave and Wenger's (1991) concept of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) plays an integral role in the reproduction of Communities of Practice. As an approach to situated learning, LPP includes not only traditional apprenticeship methods of learning but also ""indirect"" CMC learning that takes place on the Forum. An important finding of the study is that only a low level of shared knowledge is needed in order for LPP to occur. This means that the Forum is able to accommodate the shifting ""locations"" of brewers with varying degrees of experience on their trajectories toward ""full participation"". Moreover, I suggest that CMC LPP in the form of the Brewers' Forum actually functions as apprenticeship did in pre-Industrial brewing, leading to the conclusion that CMC LPP in this case is apprenticeship."
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