Social networks and social capital: Rethinking theory in community informatics

K Williams, JC Durrance - The Journal of Community …, 2008 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
One important theoretical focus in community informatics is based on the convergence of
two established bodies of theory, social networks and social capital. First we summarize …

Is Community Informatics good for communities? Questions confronting an emerging field

RR Stoecker - The Journal of Community Informatics, 2005 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
This paper addresses a number of questions confronting the emerging field of community
informatics. First, is it a field of study or a field of practice? Second, is the focus of community …

Community informatics and information systems: Can they be better connected?

L Stillman, H Linger - The Information Society, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
There is an ongoing debate in community informatics about the need for a stronger
conceptual and theoretical base in order to give the field disciplinary cohesion and direction …

Community informatics

L Keeble, B Loader - … Social Relations. London & New York …, 2001 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The vision and energy of community informatics practitioners is now beginning to provide us
with some exciting examples of innovative applications and a growing source of lay …

Community informatics and sustainability: Why social capital matters

LE Simpson - The Journal of Community Informatics, 2005 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
This paper adopts a holistic approach to explain why social capital matters for effective
implementation, widespread uptake, greater social inclusion, and the sustainability of CI …

Applications of community informatics for building community and enhancing civic society

KE Pigg - Information, Communication & Society, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Community informatics provides new ways of approaching old problems of community
development and enhancing civic society. Building on a theoretical analysis, this article …

Building community social capital: The potential and promise of information and communications technologies

KE Pigg, LD Crank - The Journal of Community …, 2004 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
Increasing community social capital is widely viewed as one of the benefits of the
deployment of information and communications technologies. A meta-analysis of the …

[图书][B] The neighborhood in the Internet: Design research projects in community informatics

JM Carroll - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Today," community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but
comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability …

A trajectory for community networks special issue: ICTs and community networking

JM Carroll, MB Rosson - The Information Society, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We argue that the World Wide Web, network communities, and computer-supported
cooperative work have transformed the context for community networks, occasioning a …

[图书][B] Community informatics: Enabling communities with information and communications technologies: Enabling communities with information and communications …

M Gurstein - 1999 - books.google.com
Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social
development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and …