Networked Neighbourhoods

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Networks and Neighbours

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XI

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   2. Networked Neighbourhoods: The Purview

      • Patrick Purcell

      Pages 3-16

3. Connected Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XI

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   2. Community Practice in the Network Society: Pathways Toward Civic Intelligence

      • Peter Day, Douglas Schuler

      Pages 19-46

   3. Social Networks and the Nature of Communities

      • Howard Rheingold

      Pages 47-75

   4. Community Informatics for Community Development: the “Hope or Hype” Issue Revisited

      • Bill Pitkin

      Pages 77-98

   5. Knowledge and the Local Community

      • Alan McCluskey

      Pages 99-110

   6. Connected Memories in the Networked Digital Era: A Moving Paradigm

      • Federico Casalegno

      Pages 111-125

   7. Community and Communication: A Rounded Perspective1

      • Jennifer Kayahara

      Pages 127-157

4. The Research Impetus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XI

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   2. Connected Lives: The Project1

      • Barry Wellman, Bernie Hogan, Kristen Berg, Jeffrey Boase, Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Rochelle Côté et al.

      Pages 161-216

   3. The Impact of the Internet on Local and Distant Social Ties

      • A. Kavanaugh, T.T. Zin, M.B. Rosson, J.M. Carroll

      Pages 217-236

   4. The Magic Lounge: Connecting Island Communities Through Varied Communication Services

      • Thomas Rist, Niels Ole Bernsen, Jean-Claude Martin

      Pages 237-263

   5. The Digital Hug: Enhancing Emotional Communication by Creative Scenarios

      • Verena Seibert-Giller, Manfred Tscheligi, Reinhard Sefelin, Anu Kankainen

      Pages 265-278

   6. Ambient Intelligence: Human–Agent Interactions in a Networked Community

      • Kostas Stathis, Robert Spence, Oscar de Bruijn, Patrick Purcell

      Pages 279-303

5. Mediated Human Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XI

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   2. Beyond Communication: Human Connectedness as a Research Agenda

      • Stefan Agamanolis

      Pages 307-344

   3. The Presence Project: Helping Older People Engage with Their Local Communities

      • William Gaver, Jacob Beaver

      Pages 345-371

   4. Informing the Community: The Roles of Interactive Public Displays in Comparable Settings

      • Antonietta Grasso, Frederic Roulland, Dave Snowdon

      Pages 373-395

The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller understanding of the evolution of our societies. Telecommunications and information technologies modify the process of accessing and storing data and knowledge, and consequently they also modify our relationship with both social and historical m- ory. Our various virtual communities continue to expand on a planetary scale, and hence the neologism “Global Village”, while concurrently, their physical counterparts are progressively being contained within speci?c contexts and places, often referred to as a process of “localization”. And then, there is the unpredictable evolution of today’s communication s- tems, an evolution that has been de?ned by Albert Einstein as the third bomb of the 20th century, after the atomic bomb and the demographic bomb. Therefore, as communication systems continue to develop, we face new scenarioswithimpreciseboundaries,thatleadtoendlessnewopportunities for establishing the relationship between social memory, community, and information systems. How can the knowledge process dynamic, together with the storing and transmitting of information, sounds, and images through digital devices, affect the communal memory and the way we both conceive of and create communities? We have at least three emerging paradigms that help us to understand the phenomena concerning the evolution of social memory linked with the recent diffusion of communication technologies.

• Communities
• Community
• Internet
• Social Net
• Social Network
• Social Networks
• ambient intelligence
• communication
• computer
• digital
• technology

From the reviews:

"This book will interest our readers who are working in the fields of sociocybernetics as well as those with a bias towards online interactions. … In many ways this text has been opened up new ground and is the fore-runner of many more that will consider the issues of people and their connection to the new technology. … it provides an instructive read with the relevant collected, articles well matched and presented by the editor." (D. M. Hutton, Kybernetes, Vol. 37 (2), 2008)

• Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, UK

  Patrick Purcell

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