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Networked Neighbourhoods

The Connected Community in Context

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Patrick Purcell

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

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  • Showcases a unique and important set of case studies by many rising stars and important stalwarts in this field, which would not be available in another form

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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

  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
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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.

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"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)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Patrick Purcell

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