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    Title
    Copyright
    Editorial Advisory Board
    List of Contributors
    Table of Contents
    Detailed Table of Contents
    Foreword
    Preface
    Chapter 1: Introduction to this Volume
    Chapter 2: GEEK
    Chapter 3: Recurrent Interactions, Acts of Communication and Emergent Social Practice in Virtual Community Settings
    Chapter 4: Toward Diversity in Researching Teaching and Technology Philosophies-in-Practice in e-Learning Communities
    Chapter 5: Data Mining Techniques for Communities' Detection in Dynamic Social Networks
    Chapter 6: A Methodological Approach for Blended Communities
    Chapter 7: Semantic Social Network Analysis
    Chapter 8: Using Social Network Analysis to Guide Theoretical Sampling in an Ethnographic Study of a Virtual Community
    Chapter 9: Graphically Mapping Electronic Discussions
    Chapter 10: A Tool to Study the Evolution of the Domain of a Distributed Community of Practice
    Chapter 11: Exploring Virtual Communities with the Internet Community Text Analyzer (ICTA)
    Chapter 12: Making the Virtual Real
    Chapter 13: Virtual Communities as Tools to Support Teaching Practicum
    Chapter 14: Conversation Analysis as a Tool to Understand Online Social Encounters
    Chapter 15: Modeling the Diversity of User Behavior in Online Communities
    Chapter 16: Context and Explanation in e-Collaborative Work
    Chapter 17: Intelligent LMS with an Agent that Learns from Log Data in a Virtual Community
    Chapter 18: A Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities
    Chapter 19: A Beginner's Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research
    Chapter 20: A Theoretical Method of Measuring Virtual Community Health and the Health of their Operating Environment in a Business Setting
    Chapter 21: Building Web Communities
    Chapter 22: Virtual Geodemographics
    Chapter 23: Development of Cellular Phone Software to Prompt Learners to Monitor and Reorganize Division of Labor in Project-Based Learning
    Chapter 24: Mathematical Retrieval Techniques for Online Mathematics Learning
    Chapter 25: Online Ethnographic Methods
    Chapter 26: Understanding Online Communities by Using Semantic Web Technologies
    Chapter 27: Understanding and Using Virtual Ethnography in Virtual Environments
    Chapter 28: Participant-Observation as a Method for Analyzing Avatar Design in User-Generated Virtual Worlds
    Chapter 29: Participatory Design Experiment
    Chapter 30: Researching Community in Distributed Environments
    Chapter 31: Methods for the Measurement and Visualization of Social Networks in Multi-User Virtual Worlds
    Chapter 32: Online Multi-Contextual Analysis
    Chapter 33: Participant Observation in Online Multiplayer Communities
    Chapter 34: Proposed Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis in the Study of News-Oriented Virtual Communities
    Chapter 35: Challenges of Analyzing Informal Virtual Communities
    Chapter 36: Research Methods for Studying Virtual Communities
    Chapter 37: Methodological Considerations for Quantitative Content Analysis of Online Interactions
    Chapter 38: Measuring Brand Community Strength
    Chapter 39: An Approach for Analysing Interactions within Virtual Learning Communities
    Chapter 40: The Sense of e-Learning Community Index (SeLCI) for Computer Supported Collaborative e-Learning (CSCeL)
    Chapter 41: Tracer Studies
    Chapter 42: Digital Museums in 3D Virtual Environment
    Chapter 43: Weaving the Social Fabrics
    Chapter 44: Studying Social Capital in the New Communitarian Horizon
    Compilation of References
    About the Contributors
    Index
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    Index - Pg. 21

    21 Index Symbols 3D online learning environment 229, 231 3D simulated environment 716 3D virtual environment 713, 714, 716 3D virtual reality 714 3D virtual world 224 A Actor Network Theory (ANT) 75, 76, 79 actualisation 4 augmenting path 399 authoritative blogs 208 avatar 224, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 530, 533, 535 avatar design 469, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476 awareness 731, 732, 733, 734, 736, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748, 750, 751, 752