I am working on a paper that looks at online spaces and online participation with regards to online learning and part of this paper deals with understanding the sorts of entities that function within online environments that are open ended (networks, communities, groups, affinity spaces, etc). I have been trying to visually map these entities to make sense of them, and seeing Andy Coverdale‘s blog entry today (on mapping activity systems) encouraged me to post my mindmap of this work. Think of this is as a literature review skeleton. Enjoy!
This image is available at a larger scale on my Flickr account.
Andy Coverdale
Thanks for sharing this George. I wrote about the use of mapping in literature review, early in my PhD:
http://sites.google.com/site/andycoverdale/texts/the-use-of-mapping-in-literature-review