Caroline Haythornthwaite

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Doctoral Dissertation

Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Media Use In Support of Communication Networks In An Academic Research Environment. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (pdf of dissertation)

Edited Books and Journal Issues

Richard Andrews & Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) (2007) Handbook of e-Learning Research. London: Sage. 

This handbook provides state-of-the-art, in-depth accounts of research areas in the rapidly expanding field of e-learning. The first of its kind, it provides reviews of over 20 areas in e-learning research by experts in the field, and provides a critical account of the best work to date. Details on the Handbook including abstracts of chapters.

Mia Consalvo & Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) (2006). AoIR Internet Annual, Volume 4. NY: Peter Lang.

The 4th Association of Internet Researchers Annual presents selected papers given at the conference held in Chicago in 2005.

Caroline Haythornthwaite (Ed.) (2005). Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems. Special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4). Available online at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4

This special issue brings together seven articles that consider what it takes to collaborate around and through information and communication technologies. The authors consider how processes co-evolve between practices and technical systems, how knowledge is shared across organizational, cultural and geographic boundaries, how conversation via IM is  adopted into organizational practices, what motivates participation in large distributed computing projects, and how computer media can change the nature of interactivity in classrooms. The articles cover a range of applications and settings; as a collection, they  attention to the broad interpretation that can be giving to the meaning of collaboration.

Caroline Haythornthwaite & Michelle M. Kazmer (Eds.) (2004). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. Peter Lang Publishers.

This book brings together papers on research and practice relating to online learning and the GSLIS LEEP program. It is published in the "Digital Technologies and Everyday Life" Series edited by Steve Jones. Details on LCC chapters.

Barry Wellman & Caroline Haythornthwaite (Eds.) (2002). The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells.

This book presents empirical studies of the place of the Internet in our daily lives, showing how the Internet is now an integrated part of our everyday activity. This book builds on an American Behavioral Scientist issue of the same name, with papers rewritten and expanded for the book, plus 10 new chapters. Details on IEL chapters.

Chapters in Books

Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B., & Garton, L. (1998). Work and community via computer-mediated communication. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.) Psychology and the Internet (pp.199-226). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Haythornthwaite, C. (1999). Work and community in networked organizations. In Leen d'Haenens (Ed.). Cyberidentities: Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace (pp. 135-145). Ottawa, Ont.: University of Ottawa Press.

Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B. & Garton, L. (2000). Arbeit und Gemeinschaft bei computervermittelter Kommunikation. In Udo Thiedeke (Ed.), Virtuelle gruppen: Charakteristika und Problemdimensiononen (pp. 356-392).Weisbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag. (Translation of Haythornthwaite, Wellman & Garton, 1998)

Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Building social networks via computer networks: Creating and sustaining distributed learning communities. In K.A. Renninger & W. Shumar, Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace (pp. 159-190). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M.M. (2002). Bringing the Internet home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, Home and Work worlds. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 431-463). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (2002). Introduction: The Internet in everyday life. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in Everyday Life (pp. 3-44). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2003) Online communities of learners. In K. Christensen & D. Levinson (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Community (pp. 1033-1039). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Kazmer, M. M. (2004). Multiple perspectives and practices in online education. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Bregman, A. (2004). Affordances of persistent conversation: Promoting communities that work. In C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.), Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Shoemaker, S. (2005). Minding your practices: Exposure and anonymity in social network data. In M. Consalvo & K. O'Riordan. AoIR Internet Annual, Volume 3 (pp. 37-47). NY: Peter Lang.

Rice, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2006). Perspectives on Internet use: Access, involvement, and interaction. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (updated paperback student edition) (pp. 92-113). London: Sage.

Haythornthwaite, C., Lunsford, K.J., Bowker, G. C., & Bruce, B. (2006). Challenges for research and practice in distributed, interdisciplinary, collaboration. In C. Hine (Ed.), New Infrastructures for Science Knowledge Production (pp. 143-166). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Haythornthwaite, C., & Nielsen, A. (2006). CMC: Revisiting Conflicting Results. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.) Psychology and the Internet, 2nd edition (pp. 161-180). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Social networks and online community. To appear in A. Joinson, K. McKenna, U. Reips & T. Postmes (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (pp. 121-136). Oxford University Press.

Andrews, R. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Introduction to e-learning research. In R. Andrews & C. Haythornthwaite, Handbook of Elearning Research (pp. 1-52). London: Sage.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Digital divide and e-learning. In R. Andrews & C. Haythornthwaite, Handbook of Elearning Research (pp. 97-118). London: Sage.

Haythornthwaite, C. (in press, 2007). Social facilitators and inhibitors to Internet access and use. To appear in N. Kutschner & H.-U. Otto, Cyberworld unlimited? On the relationship of digital inequality and new spaces of informal education for young people. Germany: VS-Verlag/GWV-Fachverlage.

Articles in Journals

Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B., & Mantei, M. (1995). Work relationships and media use: A social network analysis. Group Decision and Negotiation, 4, 193-211.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (1996). Using SAS to convert ego-centred networks to whole networks. Bulletin de Methode Sociologique, 50, 71-83.

Wellman, B., Salaff, J., Dimitrova, D., Garton, L., Gulia, M., & Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Computer networks as social networks: Collaborative work, telework, and virtual community. Annual Review of Sociology, 22, 213-238. [Reprinted in E.L. Lesser, M.A. Fontaine & J.A. Slusher (Eds.) (2000). Knowledge and Communities (pp. 179-207). Boston, MA: Butterworth Heinemann.]

Haythornthwaite, C. (1996). Social network analysis: An approach and set of techniques for the study of information exchange. Library and Information Science Research, 18(4), 323-342.

Garton, L., Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (1997). Studying online social networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3(1). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue1/garton.html  [Reprinted in S. Jones (Ed.) (1999). Doing Internet Research (pp.75-105). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.]

Haythornthwaite, C. (1998). A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners. Information Research, 4(1). Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/4-1/paper49.html

Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (1998). Work, friendship and media use for information exchange in a networked organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(12), 1101-1114.

Haythornthwaite, C., Bowker, G., Jenkins, C. & Rayward, B.W. (1999) Mapping the dimensions of a dynamic field. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1092-1094.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2000). Online personal networks: Size, composition and media use among distance learners. New Media and Society, 2(2), 195-226.

Haythornthwaite, C., Kazmer, M.M., Robins, J. & Shoemaker, S. (2000). Community development among distance learners: Temporal and technological dimensions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 6(1). Available at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html.
 --- Noted in Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 27, 2000), Social bonds found to be crucial in online education. Dan Carnevale, http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i09/09a04802.htm
---  Reprinted in C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.) (2004), Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang.

Kanfer, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Bowker, G.C., Bruce, B.C., Burbules, N., Porac, J., & Wade, J. (2000). Modeling distributed knowledge processes in next generation multidisciplinary alliances. Information Systems Frontiers, 2(34), 317-331.

Lievrouw, L., Bucy, E., Finn, A.T., Frindte, W., Gershon, R., Haythornthwaite, C., Kohler, T. Metz, J.M. & Sundar, S.S. (2001). Bridging the subdisciplines: An overview of communication and technology research. Communication Yearbook 24, 271-295.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Exploring multiplexity: Social network structures in a computer-supported distance learning class. The Information Society, 17(3), 211-226.

Kazmer, M.M. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Juggling multiple social worlds: Distance students on and offline. American Behavioral Scientist, 45(3), 510-529. --- Reprinted in C. Haythornthwaite & M. M. Kazmer (Eds.) (2004), Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. NY: Peter Lang.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Introduction: The Internet in everyday life. American Behavioral Scientist, 45(3), 363-382.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Computer-mediated communication and the 'liberated' sociologist. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, July-August 2002.  http://www.cjsonline.ca/newmill/haythorn.html

Koteles, C. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Undergraduate programs in information science: A survey of requirements and goals. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 43(2), 144-154.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Strong, weak and latent ties and the impact of new media. The Information Society, 18(5), 385 - 401.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2003). Supporting distributed relationships: Social networks of relations and media use over time. Electronic Journal of Communication, 13(1). http://www.cios.org/getfile/haythorn_v13n1

Bregman, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2003). Radicals of presentation: Visibility, relation, and co-presence in persistent conversation. New Media and Society, 5(1), 117-140.

Haythornthwaite, C. & Hagar, C. (2005). The social worlds of the web. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 39, 311-346.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Social networks and Internet connectivity effects. Information, Communication & Society, 8(2), 125-147.
--- Featured article for June issue; webcast of interview with Christian Sandvig regarding this paper at http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk

Hagar, C. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Crisis, farming & community. Journal of Community Informatics, 1(3). Available online at: http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/246/210

Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Introduction: Computer-mediated collaborative practices. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4).  http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/haythornthwaite.html

Haythornthwaite, C. (February, 2006). Facilitating collaboration in online learning. Journal of Asynchronous Learning, 10(1).  http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp

Haythornthwaite, C. (2006). Learning and knowledge exchanges in interdisciplinary collaborations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(8), 1079-1092.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2006). Articulating divides in distributed knowledge practice. Information, Communication & Society, 9(6), 761-780.

Sandars, J. & Haythornthwaite, C. (forthcoming). New horizons for e-learning in medical education: Ecological and Web 2.0 perspectives. Medical Teacher.

Haythornthwaite, C. (forthcoming). Learning networks, learning communities. International Journal of Web Based Communities. [online]

Conference Proceedings

Haythornthwaite, C., Wellman, B., & Mantei, M. (January, 1994). Media use and work relationships in a research group. In J.F. Nunamaker Jr. & R.H. Sprague Jr. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 94-103). [selected best paper in session]

Haythornthwaite, C. (August, 1997). Media use patterns and message-medium fit. In J.N.D. Gupta (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Systems Americas Conference on Information Systems (p. 900-902).

Haythornthwaite, C. (March, 1998). A social network study of the growth of community among distance learners. Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists Conference, Bristol, UK. Available at: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper15.htm

Haythornthwaite, C. (January, 1999). Collaborative work networks among distributed learners, Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM).

Haythornthwaite, C. (December, 1999). Networks of information sharing among computer-supported distance learners. Proceedings of the Computer Support for Collaborative Learning Conference (CSCL 99) (pp. 218-222), Stanford, CA.

Kanfer, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Bowker, G.C., Bruce, B.C., Burbules, N., Porac, J., Wade, J. (April, 2000). Modeling Distributed Knowledge Processes in Next Generation Multidisciplinary Alliances. AIWoRC'00 Conference.

Bregman, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Radicals of presentation in persistent conversation. Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Publications/Talks/HICSS/HICSS01_radicals.html

Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Tie strength and the impact of new media. Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Publications/Talks/HICSS/HICSS01_tiestrength.html

Haythornthwaite, C., Lunsford, K.J., Kazmer, M.M., Robins, J. & Nazarova, M. (2003). The generative dance in pursuit of generative knowledge. Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Publications/Talks/HICSS/HICSS03_genknow.html

Kazmer, M.M. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Multiple perspectives on online learning. SIGGROUP Bulletin, 25(1), 7-11.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan., 2005). Knowledge flow in interdisciplinary teams. Proceedings of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Publications/Talks/HICSS/HICSS05_kflow.html

Haythornthwaite, C. (2007). Social facilitators and inhibitors to online fluency. Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Digital Divide minitrack. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Publications/Talks/HICSS/HICSS07_digitaldivide.html

Haythornthwaite, C. & Gruzd, A. (June, 2007). A noun phrase analysis tool for mining online community. Proceedings of the 3rd International Communities and Technologies Conference.

Invited Presentations

Haythornthwaite, C. (January, 1996). Social network analysis: An approach and technique for the study of information exchange. Presented at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators Conference, San Antonio, Texas. [runner-up for Methodology prize]

Haythornthwaite, C. (September, 1997). Work and community in networked organizations. Presented at Beyond Infrastructure: A conference on entrepreneurship, communication and culture, The Association for Canadian Studies in the Netherlands and Flanders, Brussels, Belgium.

Haythornthwaite, C. (January, 1998). Employment possibilities after the defense: Transitions from the dissertation to the real world. Presented at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators, New Orleans, LA.

Haythornthwaite, C. (January, 1999). Network structures among computer-supported distance learners: Multiple relations, multiple media, and time. Presented at the Association of Library and Information Science Educators Conference, Philadelphia, PA. [winner, Research Paper competition]

Haythornthwaite, C., M.M., Robins, J. & Shoemaker, S. (March, 1999). Virtual community. Presented to the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Haythornthwaite, C. (April, 2001). Close friends and far: Supporting relationships in the Internet age. Presented at the University of Toronto Sociology Department Festshrift for Barry Wellman, Toronto, Ontario.

Haythornthwaite, C. (March, 2003). Distance education for graduate study. Paper presented at NSF Workshop on the Future of Graduate Education, March 19-20, 2003, Arlington, VA. http:www.ehr.nsf.govdgeInnovMTG.htm

Haythornthwaite, C. (May 2003). Distance learning environments, social networks, and implications for e-learning. Paper presented at Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Electronic Learning, Schloss Dagstuhl International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Wadern, Germany.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Aug., 2003). Social worlds and web worlds: Internet intersections with everyday life. Invited presentation, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan., 2004). Social networks and Internet connectivity effects. Invited presentation, Faculty of Business Administration, UIUC, Champaign. IL.

Haythornthwaite, C. (May 2004). Strong, weak and latent ties: Evidence from computer-mediated networks. Invited paper, Understanding Complex Systems conference, Champaign, IL.

Haythornthwaite, C. (May 2004). Networks, communication and community: Building computer-mediated social networks. Invited panel member, workshop on Communication Networks in the Public Interest, International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. Organizer: Nosh Contractor.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Oct. 2004). The place and mattering of community in an age of information technologies. Invited member of three-person colloquium presentation, Dept. of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Nov., 2004). Computer-mediated social networks. Networks and Complex Systems series, Organizer Katy Borner, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.

Haythornthwaite, C. (Dec., 2004). E-learning. Paper presented at ESCRWUN seminar "What do we know about researching Elearning?" part of series on Researching Dialogue & Communities of Enquiry in eLearning in Higher Education. University of York, York, England. [slides available at: http://www.wun.ac.uk/elearning/seminars/seminars/seminar_one/presentations/haythornthwaite.ppt ]

Lunsford, K.J. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Feb. 2005). Collaborative writing practice. Writing Research in the Making conference, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Haythornthwaite, C. (April, 2005). Social network methods and measures for examining e-learning. E-learning seminar, University of Southampton. [paper and presentation available at: http://www.wun.ac.uk/elearning/seminars/seminars/seminar_two/seminartwo.html ]

Haythornthwaite, C. & Aviv, R. (July, 2005). Collaboration issues in small, distributed groups. Position paper prepared for Sloan-C Workshop, Victoria BC, July 2005. [paper available at: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/haythorn/Papers/HaythornthwaiteAviv_CollabSmallGroups_Sloan05.doc ]

Haythornthwaite, C. (Feb., 2006). Digital divide: Social barriers on- and offline. Paper presented at the International Conference Cyberworld Unlimited, Feb. 9-11, 2006, Bielefeld, Germany. [paper available online at: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/haythorn/Papers/Haythornthwaite_DigitalDivideandSocialBarriers06.doc ]

Haythornthwaite, C. (June 2006). The latent power of networks. Keynote address. Network Analysis: Second Forum on Advances and Empirical Applications, Leeds University Business School, 30th June - 1st July 2006. Organizer: Nicky Shaw.

Haythornthwaite, C. (October, 2006). Learning networks, learning communities. Paper presented at the LearnIT research program, Online Learning Communities in Context seminar, Goteborg, Sweden, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2006.

Haythornthwaite, C. (June, 2007). Peer Production and Virtual Communities: Light and Heavy-Weight Models for Collaborative Publishing. Paper presented at the Print, Internet and Community conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. Sponsors: Center for Educational Technology, Burda Center for Innovative Communications, and The Center for the Study of the Information Society.  Organizers: Sheizaf Rafaeli & Avi Warshavski.