(Semi)public places, practices and pedagogy

Lindahl equilibrium and Schweizer's open club model with semipublic goods

In this paper, we extend Schweizer’s open club model to clubs with goods that have a semipublic nature rather than a pure public nature. We study limit core allocations, which are those allocations that remain in the core of a replicated economy. An equivalent notion for open clubs with pure public goods was Schweizer’s concept of club efficiency under a variable number of economic agents. We s...

Publication Practices and Multilingual Professionals in Us Universities: towards Critical Perspectives on Administration and Pedagogy

People, products and places Exploring sustainable-living practices in masterplanned communities

Different spaces but same places: Possibilities, pitfalls and persistent practices in Second Life

Second Life is one of the social sharing spaces of Web 2.0 that is being employed for educational purposes around the globe. Over the past few years many conference presentations on Second Life have highlighted the potentials of its use in the formal education of neomillennials. This paper takes a different perspective. It documents the possibilities and the pitfalls of Second Life as a formal ...

Mapping the Terrain of "Generation C": Places and Practices of Online Content Creation Among Estonian Teenagers

This article focuses on practices of online content creation among young Internet users in Estonia. The data are derived from a questionnaire survey carried out in schools in 3 cities in autumn 2007 (N = 713) among 11to 18-year-old students. Our findings suggest that content creation practices in more structured online environments such as social networking sites, forums and news portals are mu...