Pragmatic Learning Theory: An Inquiry-Action Framework for Distributed Consumer Learning in Online Communities
- 1 April 2010
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Consumer Research
- Vol. 36 (6), 1058-1081
- https://doi.org/10.1086/648689
Abstract
We examine consumer social learning from distributed inquiry capabilities in online communities. Using an inquiry-action framework rooted in pragmatic learning theory, we longitudinally trace community inquiry processes and their link to individual action in six health-related online communities. Our interpretive analyses reveal leaps and lapses in social learning. Generative learning is evident when collective productive inquiry is linked to expanding individual action repertoires. Individual disengagement diverts inquiry and disrupts inquiry-action linkages, creating lapses that degenerate learning. Within these extremes, instances of individual faltering are evident when inquiry is productive but individuals fail to leverage inquiry for empowered action. (c) 2009 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc..Keywords
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