Don,
Thanks for the note on criteria. It resonates with me, also. You might be
interested in reading the following:
Following a read of the Vann and Bowker piece posted on the mca home page,
I ran down
Vann, K. & Bowker, G. G. (2001). Instrumentalizing the truth of
practice. Social Epistemology, 15(3), 247-262.
I think it is a better piece that the posted, although it was choppy read
for me. It does trace the commodification of CoPs through Wenger, but it
does a better of job of presenting development of the idea by Lave.
I also chased down Winkelmann, C. L. (1991). Social acts and social
systems: Community as metaphor. Linguistics and Education, 3, 1-29.
This is a very strong paper. Winkelmann presents a strong challenge to the
CoP metaphor and a convincing argument for "collective". After my first
pass through it, I concluded that Yrjo's model is more about a collective
than a community. This piece is worth a read.
Bill Blantonc
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