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Communities and Technologies 2005

Proceedings of the Second Communities and Technologies Conference, Milano 2005

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Peter Besselaar

    1. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Giorgio Michelis

    1. University of Milano, Bicocca, Italy

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  3. Jenny Preece

    1. University of Maryland, USA

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  4. Carla Simone

    1. University of Milano, Bicocca, Italy

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  • International coverage
  • Wide variety of examples
  • Papers by top researchers in the field

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Local Communities

    1. Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations?

      • Christopher Weare, William E. Loges, Nail Oztas
      Pages 1-18

    2. Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation

      • Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Philip L. Isenhour, Matthew Cooper, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Joseph Schmitz
      Pages 19-40

    3. Local Communities: Relationships between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ social capital

      • Sonia Liff
      Pages 41-53

    4. Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case

      • Murali Venkatesh, Dong Hee Shin
      Pages 55-74

    5. Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing

      • Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll
      Pages 75-94

  3. Virtual Communities

    1. Virtual Community Management as Socialization and Learning

      • Daniel Pargman
      Pages 95-110

    2. File-Sharing Relationships — conflicts of interest in online gift-giving

      • Jörgen SkÃ¥geby, Daniel Pargman
      Pages 111-127

    3. Acceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer Patients

      • Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar
      Pages 129-148

    4. How to Win a World Election: Emergent Leadership in an International Online Community

      • Justine Cassell, David Huffaker, Dona Tversky, Kim Ferriman
      Pages 149-169

    5. A Bosom Buddy Afar Brings a Distant Land Near: Are Bloggers a Global Community?

      • Norman Makoto Su, Yang Wang, Gloria Mark, Tosin Aiyelokun, Tadashi Nakano
      Pages 171-190

  4. Knowledge & Scientific Communities

    1. Archetypes of Knowledge Communities

      • J.H. Erik Andriessen
      Pages 191-213

    2. Local Virtuality in an Organization: Implications for Community of Practice

      • Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman
      Pages 215-238

    3. Taking a Differentiated View of Intra-organizational Distributed Networks of Practice

      • Eli Hustad, Robin Teigland
      Pages 239-261

    4. Structuring of Genre Repertoire in a Virtual Research Team

      • Roberto Dandi, Caterina Muzzi
      Pages 263-282

    5. Principles for Cultivating Scientific Communities of Practice

      • Andrea Kienle, Martin Wessner
      Pages 283-299

    6. A Study of Online Discussions in an Open-Source Software Community

      • Flore Barcellini, Françoise Détienne, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Warren Sack
      Pages 301-320

  5. Experiments

    1. Citizen Participation through E-Forum: a Case of Wastewater Issues

      • Vatcharaporn Esichaikul, Valailak Komolrit
      Pages 321-339

    2. E-Commerce, Communities and Government - a Snapshot of the Australian Experience

      • Andrea Howell, Milé Terziovski
      Pages 341-357

    3. Collective Action in Electronic Networks of Practice: An Empirical Study of Three Online Social Structures

      • Fredric Landqvist, Robin Teigland
      Pages 359-375
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This book includes 23 papers dealing with the impact of modern information and communication technologies that support a wide variety of communities: local communities, virtual communities, and communities of practice, such as knowledge communities and scientific communities. The volume is the result of the second multidisciplinary "Communities and Technologies Conference", a major event in this emerging research field. The various chapters discuss how communities are affected by technologies, and how understanding of the way that communities function can be used in improving information systems design. This state of the art overview will be of interest to computer and information scientists, social scientists and practitioners alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Besselaar

  • University of Milano, Bicocca, Italy

    Giorgio Michelis, Carla Simone

  • University of Maryland, USA

    Jenny Preece

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