Todd Marshall has compiled a brief bibliography on Conversation Theory and Participatory Networks (from a scholarly perspective). It is listed below and has been added to the “Readings” page of the site. If you see things missing or want to add, please let me know.
Participatory Networks Bibliography (12/3/2007)
Bechtel, Joan M. (1986). Conversation, A New Paradigm for Librarianship? College & Research Libraries 47 (3). pp. 219-224.
Bernard, Scott. (1980). The Cybernetics of Gordon Pask. International Cybernetics Newsletter (17). pp. 327-336.
Fisher, Kathleen M. (2001). Overview of Knowledge Mapping. In: Mapping Biology Knowledge. Springer, pp. 5-23.
Ford, Nigel. (2004). Modeling cognitive processes in information seeking: From Popper to Pask. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55 (9). pp. 769-782.
Ford, Nigel. (2005). “Conversational” information systems: Extending educational informatics support for the web-based learner. Journal of Documentation 61 (3). pp. 362-384.
Glanville, Ranulph. (1993). Pask: a Slight Primer. Systems Research 10 (3). pp. 213-218.
Lankes, R. D., Silverstein, J. L., Nicholson, S., & Marshall, T. (2007). Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation. Information Research, 12 (4) paper colis05 (http://InformationR.net/ir/12-4/colis05.html).
Lankes, R. David and Silverstein, Joanne L. and Nicholson, Scott. (2007). Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation. Technical Report. Information Institute of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY.
Laurillard, Diana. (1999). A Conversational Framework for Individual Learning Applied to the `Learning Organisation’ and the `Learning Society’. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 16 (2). pp. 113-122.
McKeen, James and Guimaraes, Tor and Wetherbe, James (1994). The relationship between user participation and user satisfaction: An investigation of four contingency factors. MIS Quarterly 18 (4). pp. 427-451.
Pask, Gordon. (1975). Conversation, Cognition and Learning: A Cybernetic Theory and Methodology. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Pask, Gordon. (1996). Heinz von Foerster’s Self Organization, the Progenitor of Conversation and Interaction Theories. Systems Research 13 (3). pp. 349-362.
Patel, A. and Kinshuk, and Russell, D. (2002). Implementing Cognitive Apprenticeship and Conversation Theory in Interactive Web-Based Learning Systems. In: Sixth Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, pp. 523-528.
Pimentel, D. M. (2007). Exploring classification as conversation. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pp. 1-8, Toronto, Ontario. (http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1893/)
Scott, Bernard. (1993). Working with Gordon: Developing and Applying Conversation Theory (1968- 1978). Systems Research 10 (3). pp. 167-182.
Scott, Bernard. (2001). Cybernetics and the Social Sciences. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 18 (5). pp. 411-420.
Thomas, Laurie and Harri-Augstein, Sheila. (1993). Gordon Pask at Brunel: A Continuing Conversation about Conversations. Systems Research 10 (3). pp. 183-192.
Wenger, Etienne. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge University Press, New York.