The Neighborhood in the Internet

Design Research Projects in Community Informatics

John M. Carroll (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78308-8 (ISBN)

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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 truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community networks on local community, and how community network designs are appropriated and extended by community members.

Carroll uses his conceptual model of "community" to re-examine the Blacksburg Electronic Village – the first Web-based community network – applying it to attempts to sustain and enrich contemporary communities through information technology. The book provides an analysis of the role of community in contemporary paradigms for work and other activity mediated by the Internet. It brings to the fore a series of design experiments investigating new approaches to community networking and addresses the future trajectory and importance of community networks.

This book will be of interest to students of sociology, community psychology, human-computer interaction, information science, and computer-supported collaborative work.

John M. Carroll is Edward Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. His research is in methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and design of interactive information systems. His books include Rationale-Based Software Engineering (Springer, 2008, with J. Burge, R. McCall and I. Mistrik), and Learning in Communities (Springer, 2009).

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Community Lost, Community Regained 2. What are Community Networks? 3. Appropriating a Community Network 4. Community Consequences of a Network 5. Learning in a Networked Community 6. Reaching Across Generations 7. Designing Our Town 8. Whither Community Networks? References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2012
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	23 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-78308-9 / 0415783089
ISBN-13	978-0-415-78308-8 / 9780415783088
Zustand	Neuware