Theoretical Investigations : Springer : 9783030491598 : 3030491595 : 24 Apr 2022 : Computers have transformed how we think, discuss and learn?as individuals, in groups, within cultures and globally. However, social media are problematic, fostering flaming, culture wars and fake news. This volume presents an alternative paradigm for computer support of group thinking, collaborative learning and joint knowledge construction. This requires expanding concepts of cognition to collectivities, like collaborative groups of networked students. Theoretical Investigations explores the conditions for group cognition, supplying a philosophical foundation for new models of pedagogy and methods to analyze group interaction. Twenty-five self-contained investigations document progress in research on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)?both in Stahl's own research and during the first decade of the CSCL journal. The volume begins with two new reflections on the vision and theory that resu