Michael J. Baker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael J. Baker plays a role.
2024 Arguing across spaces in an online epistemic community: Case studies in controversial Wikipedia articles Journal of Argumentation in Context 13:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
Wikipedia is the most consulted source of information on the web, on a global level. The collective writing of articles, open to the participation of all, can give rise to major conflicts between contributors, in texts and debates, given the high stakes involved in achieving agreement on a… read more
2018 Collaborative remembering at work Interaction Studies 19:3, pp. 459–486 | Article
Collaborative remembering is essential to enabling teams to build shared understanding of projects and their progress. This article presents an analysis of collaborative remembering sequences in a corpus of interactions collected in a workplace where a team of designers developed a video… read more
2015 Collaboration in collaborative learning Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Amici, Federica and Lucas M. Bietti (eds.), pp. 451–473 | Article
This paper presents a theorisation of collaborative activity that was developed in the research field known as “collaborative learning”, in order to understand the processes of co-elaboration of meaning and knowledge. Collaboration, as distinguished from cooperation, coordination and collective… read more
2015 The integration of pragma-dialectics and collaborative learning research: Dialogue, externalisation and collective thinking Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 175–200 | Article
This paper describes extensions of pragma-dialectical theory for analysing learning processes in students’ argumentation dialogues. It is argued that although pragma-dialectics is the most appropriate theory in this context, it needs to be ‘psychologised’ by the consideration of additional… read more