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Communities and Technologies

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Marleen Huysman

    1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Etienne Wenger

    1. San Jose, USA

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  3. Volker Wulf

    1. University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Siegen, Germany

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. How Practice Matters: A Relational View of Knowledge Sharing

    • Carsten Østerlund, Paul Carlile
    Pages 1-22

  3. Structural Analysis of Communities of Practice: An Investigation of Job title, Location, and Management Intention

    • Joan T. Allatta
    Pages 23-42

  4. Episteme or practice? Differentiated Communitarian Structures in a Biology Laboratory

    • Frédéric Créplet, Olivier Dupouët, Emmanuelle Vaast
    Pages 43-63

  5. We Can See You: A Study of Communities’ Invisible People through ReachOut

    • Vladimir Soroka, Michal Jacovi, Sigalit Ur
    Pages 65-79

  6. Email as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations

    • Joshua R. Tyler, Dennis M. Wilkinson, Bernardo A. Huberman
    Pages 81-96

  7. Multimedia Fliers: Information Sharing With Digital Community Bulletin Boards

    • Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue
    Pages 97-117

  8. Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Communities

    • Bart van den Hooff, Wim Elving, Jan Michiel Meeuwsen, Claudette Dumoulin
    Pages 119-141

  9. Uses of information sources in an Internet-era firm: Online and offline

    • Anabel Quan-Haase, Joseph Cothrel
    Pages 143-162

  10. Communities and other Social Structures for Knowledge Sharing — A Case Study in an Internet Consultancy Company

    • Inkeri Ruuska, Matti Vartiainen
    Pages 163-183

  11. Intranets and Local Community: ‘Yes, an intranet is all very well, but do we still get free beer and a barbeque?’

    • Michael Arnold, Martin R. Gibbs, Philippa Wright
    Pages 185-204

  12. Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community

    • Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll
    Pages 205-225

  13. The African Dream: A Pan-African E-community Project

    • Denise Biggs, Carol Purnell
    Pages 227-240

  14. The Role of Social Capital in Regional Technological Innovation: Seeing both the wood and the trees

    • Louise Tamaschke
    Pages 241-264

  15. Weak Ties in Networked Communities

    • Andrea Kavanaugh, Debbie Denise Reese, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson
    Pages 265-286

  16. A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities

    • Ben Kei Daniel, Juan-Diego Zapata-Rivera, Gordon McCalla
    Pages 287-305

  17. I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation

    • Mark S. Ackerman, Anne Swenson, Stephen Cotterill, Kurtis DeMaagd
    Pages 307-325

  18. The Role of Knowledge Artifacts in Innovation Management: The Case of a Chemical Compound Designer CoP

    • Stefania Bandini, Ettore Colombo, Gianluca Colombo, Fabio Sartori, Carla Simone
    Pages 327-345

  19. Supporting an Experiment of a Community Support System: Community Analysis and Maintenance Functions in the Public Opinion Channel

    • Tomohiro Fukuhara, Masaki Chikama, Toyoaki Nishida
    Pages 347-367

  20. Patients’ Online Communities Experiences of emergent Swedish self-help on the Internet

    • Ulrika Josefsson
    Pages 369-389
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The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional communities and the internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects the best of current research and practice in the field of C&T.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marleen Huysman

  • San Jose, USA

    Etienne Wenger

  • University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT, Siegen, Germany

    Volker Wulf

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