Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces

Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta is Full Professor of Education with a Multidisciplinary Focus at Jnkping University, Sweden. She is the Director of the research environment LPS, Learning Practices inside and outside Schools and leads the ongoing Swedish Research Council project PAL, Participation for all? Giulia Messina Dahlberg is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the co-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity. Ylva Lindberg is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Jnkping University, Sweden. She is Dean of Research at the School of Education and Communication and the senior-leader of the network-based research environment CCD, Communication, Culture and Diversity.

Section 1: Institutional Framing and Policies.- Chapter 1: On Epistemological Issues in Technologically Infused Spaces: Notes on Virtual Sites for Learning (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Giulia Messina Dahlberg).- Chapter 2: Inscriptions and Digitalization Initiatives Across Time in the Nation-Sate of Sweden: the Relevance of Shifts and Continuities in Policy Accounts for Teachers' Work (Lars Almn and Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta).- Chapter 3: Authenticity of Language Practices in Virtual Learning Sites (Jonathan White).- Section 2: Genre Framings.- Chapter 4: Wikipedia's Falling Stars: Arguments for Demotion When Articles Lose Their Status as Featured Articles (Maria Mattus).- Chapter 5: The Story Event "The Beauty and the Beast" in Second Life: Literature Studies and the (Non-)Adoption of Virtual Worlds (Ylva Lindberg).- Chapter 6: Text Universe- a Pedagogical Strategy to Teach Literary Classics (Anette Svensson and Stefan Lundstrm).- Chapter 7: Wikipedia as a Virtual Learning Site anda Multilingual Languaging Site (Sverker Johansson and Ylva Lindberg).- Section 3: Identity and Learning Framings.- Chapter 8: "Oh it was a woman! Had I known I would have reacted otherwise!" Developing Digital Methods to Switch Identity-Related Properties in Order to Reveal Linguistic Stereotyping (Mattias Lindvall-stling, Mats Deutschmann and Anders Steinvall).- Chapter 9: "Going on trial": Teachers' Team Performance in Social Media Groups When Facing Problematic Work-Related Issues (Louise Peterson, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Thomas Hillman, Mona Lundin and Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt).- Chapter 10: The Conceptualization of Time, Space and the Body in Virtual Sites and the Impact on Language Learner Identities (Regine Hampel).- Chapter 11: Self-Directed Language Learning: a Semiotic Analysis of a Language Learning App (Wing Yee and Jennifer Ho).- Section 4: Researching Virtual Learning Sites.- Chapter 12: Handling Languaging During Empirical Research: Ethnography as Action in and AcrossTime and Physical-Virtual Sites (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg and Annaliina Gynne).- Chapter 13: On Methodology and the Educational Services: Reflections on the ViLS Contributions (Ylva Lindberg).