Communities and Technologies

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

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.

• Internet
• Online
• Text
• innovation
• management
• multimedia
• organization

• 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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