Putting together online communities Building Virtual groups looks at how online groups help people learn and change the way they think. In this book, different people with different academic backgrounds, methods, and personal experience with virtual groups look at this question. Case studies are included to help explain things even more. Together, these parts talk about how virtual communities are built in ways that thinkers, researchers, and practitioners can understand. The chapters give you a place to start thinking about how virtual communities works. This book is intended be interesting to university students, researchers, and practitioners.