Bill's paper which Eva references in her "emergence and decay" paper is now
linked in the paper archive.
http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/index.html
Bill Barowy: wbarowy who-is-at lesley.edu
A Model for Self-Regulation in Electronic Learning Communities
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/mp/srmodel.html
This paper will attempt to bring together conceptual tools from several
fields of study. After a discussion of the ecological considerations and
quantitative patterns of the object mailing list, a gedankin-experiment is
used to explore the dynamics of email exchanges. Next, a computational
model is presented to investigate the self-regulation of mailing list
discussions.
Nate Schmolze
http://www.geocities.com/~nschmolze/
schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu
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"Pedogogics is never and was never politically indifferent,
since, willingly or unwillingly, through its own work on the psyche,
it has always adopted a particular social pattern, political line,
in accordance with the dominant social class that has guided its
interests".
L.S. Vygotsky
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