Communities and Technologies 2005 Proceedings of the Second Communit
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 sc
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Communities and Technologies 2005 Proceedings of the Second Communities and Technologies Conference, Milano 2005
Edited by
PETER VAN DEN BESSELAAR University of Amsterdam The Netherlands
GIORGIO DE MICHELIS University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
JENNY PREECE University of Maryland, U.S.A. and
CARLA SIMONE University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-3590-X (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-3591-8 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3590-6 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3591-3 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
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Table of Contents From the conference chairs Sponsors, conference committees, and other reviewers
ix xiii
PART 1: LOCAL COMMUNITIES Does the Internet Enhance the Capacity of Community Associations? Christopher Weare, William E. Loges, Nail Oztas Information Technology in Support of Public Deliberation Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Philip L. Isenhour, Matthew Cooper, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Joseph Schmitz
1 19
Local Communities: Relationships between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ social capital Sonia Liff
41
Extending Social Constructivism with Institutional Theory: A Broadband Civic Networking Case Murali Venkatesh, Dong Hee Shin
55
Minimalist Design for Informal Learning in Community Computing Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll
75
PART 2: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Virtual Community Management as Socialization and Learning Daniel Pargman File-Sharing Relationships – conflicts of interest in online gift-giving Jörgen Skågeby, Daniel Pargman
95 111
Acceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer Patients Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar
129
How to win a World Election: Emergent Leadership in an International Online Community Justine Cassell, David Huffaker, Dona Tversky, Kim Ferriman
149
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A Bosom Buddy afar brings a Distant Land near: are Bloggers a Global Community? Norman Makoto Su, Yang Wang, Gloria Mark, Tosin Aieylokun, Tadashi Nakano
171
PART 3: KNOWLEDGE & SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES Archetypes of Knowledge Communities J.H.Erik Andriessen Local Virtuality in an Organization: Implications for Community of Practice Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman Taking a Differentiated View of Intra-organizational Distributed Networks of Practice: A Case Study Exploring Knowledge Acti
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