Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal. A rich variety of social experiments in what has become known as Community Informatics is now beginning to provide useful research findings and exciting examples of innovative applications.
This book sets down some of the defining features of a Community Informatics approach and some of the common themes which are emerging. In particular it considers the following issues:
* sustainability
* employment
* community management
* public service provision
* partnerships of stakeholders
* local learning
* social support and networks.
This edited collection brings together leading exponents of Community Informatics from around the world and critically evaluates their experiences.
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' ...provides an important and non-technical introduction to the issues of building greater social cohesion through the use of ICT ...the readings form an important and accessible collection of material that moves debate on from simplistic one-dimensional notions.' - Housing Studies, Tim Brown 'Provides an important and non-technical introduction to the issues of building greater social cohesion through the use of ICT ... the readings form an important and accessible collection of material that moves debate on from simplistic one-dimensional notions.'-Housing Studies
Contributors x Foreword xix Howard Rheingold Preface xxiii Community informatics: themes and issues 1(10) Leigh Keeble Brian D. Loader Staten Island stories - handing over the tools of video communi-creation 11(6) Perry Bard PART I Community informatics as place and space Physical place and cyberplace: the rise of networked individualism 17(26) Barry Wellman Creating community in conspiracy with the enemy 43(10) Erik Stolterman The technological story of a womens centre: a feminist model of user-centred design 53(18) Eileen Green Leigh Keeble The safety Net? Some reflections on the emergence of computer-mediated self-help and social support 71(18) Nicholas Pleace Roger Burrows Brian D. Loader Sarah Nettleton Steve Muncer PART II The experience of community informatics Community networks and access for all in the era of the free Internet: `Discovering the Treasure of community 89(12) Giovanni Casapulla Fiorella De Cindio Laura Anna Ripamonti On crafting a study of digital community networks: theoretical and methodological considerations 101(17) Nicholas W. Jankowski Martine Van Selm ed Hollander Community networking in Russia: identifying the research agenda 118(11) Sergei Stafeev Some lessons of social experiments with technology 129(20) Birgit Jger Change agency and womens learning: new practices in community informatics 149(28) Anne Scott Margaret Page PART III Electronic empowerment and surveillance Social capital and cyberpower in the African-American community: a case study of a community technology centre in the dual city 177(28) Abdul Alkalimat Kate Williams Online forums as a tool for people-centred governance: experiences from local government in Sweden 205(15) Agneta Ranerup Surveillance in the community: community development through the use of closed-circuit television 220(20) C. William R. Webster John Hood The techno-flaneur: tele-erotic re-presentation of womens life spaces 240(23) Tamara Seabrook Louise Wattis PART IV Policy implications of community informatics Community informatics, community networks and strategies for flexible networking 263(21) Michael Gurstein Cultivating societys civic intelligence: patterns for a new `world brain 284(21) Doug Schuler Participating in the information society: community development and social inclusion 305(19) Peter Day Communities and community e-gateways: networking for social inclusion 324(18) Sonia Liff Fred Steward Glossary 342(3) Bibliography 345(33) Index 378
Dave Eagle, Barry Haugue, Leigh Keeble, Brian D. Loader
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