Communities And Technologies 2005

This book includes 23 papers dealing with the impact of modern information and communication technologies that support a wide variety of communities: local communities, virtual communities, and communities of practice, such as knowledge communities and scientific communities. The volume is the result of the second multidisciplinary "Communities and Technologies Conference", a major event in this emerging research field. The various chapters discuss how communities are affected by technologies, and how understanding of the way that communities function can be used in improving information systems design. This state of the art overview will be of interest to computer and information scientists, social scientists and practitioners alike.

From the conference chairs

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Sponsors, conference committees, and other reviewers

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PART 1: LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations?

1

(18)

Christopher Weare, William E. Loges, Nail Oztas

Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation

19

(22)

Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Philip L. Isenhour, Matthew Cooper, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Joseph Schmitz

Local Communities: Relationships between 'real' and 'virtual' social capital

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(14)

Sonia Liff

Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case

55

(20)

Murali Venkatesh, Dong Hee Shin

Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing

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(20)

Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll

PART 2: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES

Virtual Community Management as Socialization and Learning

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(16)

Daniel Pargman

File-Sharing Relationships – conflicts of interest in online gift-giving

111

(18)

Jörgen Skågeby, Daniel Pargman

Acceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer Patients

129

(20)

Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar

How to win a World Election: Emergent Leadership in an International Online Community

149

(22)

Justine Cassell, David Huffaker, Dona Tversky, Kim Ferriman

A Bosom Buddy afar brings a Distant Land near: are Bloggers a Global Community?

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(20)

Norman Makoto Su, Yang Wang, Gloria Mark, Tosin Aieylokun, Tadashi Nakano

PART 3: KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES

Archetypes of Knowledge Communities

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(24)

J.H. Erik Andriessen

Local Virtuality in an Organization: Implications for Community of Practice

215

(24)

Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman

Taking a Differentiated View of Intra-organizational Distributed Networks of Practice: A Case Study Exploring Knowledge Activities, Diversity, and Communication Media Use

239

(24)

Eli Hustad, Robin Teigland

Structuring of Genre Repertoire in a Virtual Research Team

263

(20)

Roberto Dandi, Caterina Muzzi

Principles for Cultivating Scientific Communities of Practice

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(18)

Andrea Kienle, Martin Wessner

A study of Online Discussions in an Open-Source Software Community: Reconstructing Thematic Coherence and Argumentation from Quotation Practices

301

(20)

Fiore Barcellini, Françoise Détienne, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Warren Sack

PART 4: EXPERIMENTS

Citizen Participation through E-Forum: A Case of Wastewater Issues

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(20)

Vatcharaporn Esichaikul, Valailak Komolrit

E-Commerce, Communities and Government: A Snapshot of the Australian Experience

341

(18)

Andrea Howell, Milé Terziovski

Collective Action in Electronic Networks of Practice: An Empirical Study of Three Online Social Structures

359

(18)

Fredric Landqvist, Robin Teigland

Bridging among Ethnic Communities by Cross-cultural Communities of Practice

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(20)

Gunnar Stevens, Michael Veith, Volker Wulf

Supporting Privacy Management via Community Experience and Expertise

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(22)

Jeremy Goecks , Elizabeth D. Mynatt

PART 5: SYSTEMS

Regulation Mechanisms in an Open Social Media using a Contact Recommender System

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(18)

L. Vignollet, M. Plu, J.C. Marty, L. Agosto

Supporting Communities by Providing Multiple Views

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(20)

Alessandra Agostini, Sara Albolino, Flavio De Paoli, Antonietta M. Grasso, Elke Hinrichs

Addresses

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