More to read and think about...

Hi folks,

I mentioned this week in the lecture a very important piece of early writing on 'virtual identities'. The piece, by Sandy Stone is entitled Will the Real Body please Stand Up?

Meanwhile, lecture notes for this week are online with these questions to consider:

What stories do you tell yourself about virtual communities?
How have you come to form this narrative?
How do we judge whether interactions are ‘authentic’?
Where is the line between communication and community?
Does communication necessarily mean ‘community’?
What ideas about technology does the notion of virtual community serve?

Meanwhile, next week we will be having a guest lecturer, Peter van Schie of Cloud Media, who will be discussing the role of Virtual teams in ebusiness. As the lecture will not cover the e-learning side of this topic I would suggest that you listen to the iLecture on the course site which discusses this side of things. The lecture may also be very helpful when it comes around to the self-reflection at the end of the course.