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Communities of Computing

Author : Thomas J. Misa
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
ISBN 13 : 1970001852
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Communities of Computing written by Thomas J. Misa and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities of Computing is the first book-length history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), founded in 1947 and with a membership today of 100,000 worldwide. It profiles ACM's notable SIGs, active chapters, and individual members, setting ACM's history into a rich social and political context. The book's 12 core chapters are organized into three thematic sections. "Defining the Discipline" examines the 1960s and 1970s when the field of computer science was taking form at the National Science Foundation, Stanford University, and through ACM's notable efforts in education and curriculum standards. "Broadening the Profession" looks outward into the wider society as ACM engaged with social and political issues - and as members struggled with balancing a focus on scientific issues and awareness of the wider world. Chapters examine the social turbulence surrounding the Vietnam War, debates about the women's movement, efforts for computing and community education, and international issues including professionalization and the Cold War. "Expanding Research Frontiers" profiles three areas of research activity where ACM members and ACM itself shaped notable advances in computing, including computer graphics, computer security, and hypertext. Featuring insightful profiles of notable ACM leaders, such as Edmund Berkeley, George Forsythe, Jean Sammet, Peter Denning, and Kelly Gotlieb, and honest assessments of controversial episodes, the volume deals with compelling and complex issues involving ACM and computing. It is not a narrow organizational history of ACM committees and SIGS, although much information about them is given. All chapters are original works of research. Many chapters draw on archival records of ACM's headquarters, ACM SIGs, and ACM leaders. This volume makes a permanent contribution to documenting the history of ACM and understanding its central role in the history of computing.

Social Computing and Virtual Communities

Author : Panayiotis Zaphiris
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420090437
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Social Computing and Virtual Communities written by Panayiotis Zaphiris and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing more quickly than we can study or come to fully understand it, social computing is much more than the next thing. Whether it is due more to technology-driven convenience or to the basic human need to find kindred connection, online communication and communities are changing the way we live. Social Computing and Virtual Communities compiles contributions from international experts to offer the sort of multidisciplinary study that is required in any investigation of communities. Delving fully into theories and methods, application areas, and types of online social environments, this book — Introduces several theories regarding online social interaction Provides a general overview of methodologies, qualitative and quantitative, for analyzing and evaluating virtual communities Makes an in-depth investigation into e-learning communities and the formation of social networks of learners Examines healthcare communities motivated by physical pain, illness, and burdensome symptoms Discusses intellectual property (IP) issues, including those involving user-generated content Delves into the topic of online trust Introduces virtual communities, in which users immerse themselves in a 3D virtual environment, including MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing games) Presents an unusual community of older people of Chinese culture who perceive virtual communities as a place where old beliefs and traditional norms can be preserved Explores the rapid rise of social networking sites (SNS) Books of this kind are uncommon. This work not only provides case studies of different domains of virtual communities and different types of social technologies but also emphasizes theoretical and methodological aspects required to research and analyze such communities.

Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments

Author : Rae Earnshaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781852332389
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Human-Centered Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments written by Rae Earnshaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of a joint National Science Foundation and European Commission Workshop which was set up to identify the future key strategic research directions in the areas of human-centred interaction, online communities and virtual environments.

Online Communities and Social Computing

Author : A. Ant Ozok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642217958
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Online Communities and Social Computing written by A. Ant Ozok and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and social computing, addressing the following major topics: on-line communities and intelligent agents in education and research; blogs, Wikis and Twitters; social computing in business and the enterprise; social computing in everyday life; information management in social computing.

The Computer Clubhouse

Author : Yasmin Kafai
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807749890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book The Computer Clubhouse written by Yasmin Kafai and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the Computer Clubhouse — the idea and the place — that inspires youth to think about themselves as competent, creative, and critical learners. So much of the social life of young people has moved online and participation in the digital public has become an essential part of youth identities. The Computer Clubhouse makes an important contribution not just in local urban communities but also as a model for after-school learning environments globally. This model has been uniquely successful scaling up, with over 100 clubhouses thriving worldwide. Showcasing research by scholars and evaluators that have documented and analyzed the international Computer Clubhouse Network, this volume considers the implications of their findings in the context of what it means to prepare youth to meet the goals of the 21st century. Book Features: A successful, scalable model for providing at-risk youth a rich array of media design and computing experiences. Diverse examples of media created in the Clubhouse, ranging from digital stories, video games, interface designs, and digital art projects. Color photos of life in the Clubhouse, including youth projects. Interviews with stakeholders in the Clubhouse Network, from the director to coordinators at various international Clubhouses.

Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005

Author : Pinar Yolum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540320857
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005 written by Pinar Yolum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2005, held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2005. The 92 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 491 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer networks, sensor and satellite networks, security and cryptography, performance evaluation, e-commerce and Web services, multiagent systems, machine learning, information retrieval and natural language processing, image and speech processing, algorithms and database systems, as well as theory of computing.

Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies

Author : Dasgupta, Subhasish
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591407974
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies written by Dasgupta, Subhasish and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies provides a much needed integrated overview of all the critical concepts, technologies and issues in the area of virtual communities"--Provided by publisher.

Community Computing and Support Systems

Author : Toru Ishida
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354049247X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Community Computing and Support Systems written by Toru Ishida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread use of global networks like the Internet and mobile computing have made worldwide computing over virtual communities a reality. This is the first book devoted to community computing. It is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998. The 24 revised full papers presented together with an introduction to the emerging field were carefully selected and revised for inclusion in the book. The book is divided in parts on models and concepts, methodologies for large scale trials, sharing knowledge and preferences, supporting social interaction, and agent technologies in communities.

Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community

Author : Philip E. Agre
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 156750258X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community written by Philip E. Agre and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through computer use. It contains some of the very first papers on very important topics including the AEGIS disaster, the intriguing new world of MUD environments, and community networks, including a study of Community Memory in Berkeley, possibly the world's first community computer system. The first half contains critical studies, in which the authors explain ways of describing real situations where people are already using computers. This situations are often problematic and much more complicated than the scenarios that the designers envisioned when designing the system. The second half of the book contains constructive studies, reporting experiences in trying to build systems in new ways, with a fully developed consciousness of what people need and the interactions between computer systems and social systems.

Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems

Author : Roman Obermaisser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540756647
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems written by Roman Obermaisser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2007, held in conjunction with ISORC 2007, the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing. Coverage includes ubiquitous computing frameworks, validation of embedded and ubiquitous systems, and ubiquitous computing applications.

A City Is Not a Computer

Author : Shannon Mattern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122675X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A City Is Not a Computer written by Shannon Mattern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models. Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the "city-as-computer" metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and design, reduces place-based knowledge to information processing. Mattern then imagines how we might sustain institutions and infrastructures that constitute more diverse, open, inclusive urban forms. She shows how the public library functions as a steward of urban intelligence, and describes the scales of upkeep needed to sustain a city's many moving parts, from spinning hard drives to bridge repairs. Incorporating insights from urban studies, data science, and media and information studies, A City Is Not a Computer offers a visionary new approach to urban planning and design.

The Social Design of Technical Systems

Author : Brian Whitworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788792964090
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Social Design of Technical Systems written by Brian Whitworth and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of millions of people use social technologies like Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube every day, but what makes them work? And what is the next step? The Social Design of Technical Systems explores the path from computing revolution to social evolution. Based on the assumption that it is essential to consider social as well as technological requirements, as we move to create the systems of the future, this book explores the ways in which technology fits, or fails to fit, into the social reality of the modern world. Important performance criteria for social systems, such as fairness, synergy, transparency, order and freedom, are clearly explained for the first time from within a comprehensive systems framework, making this book invaluable for anyone interested in socio-technical systems, especially those planning to build social software. This book reveals the social dilemmas that destroy communities, exposes the myth that computers are smart, analyses social errors like the credit meltdown, proposes online rights standards and suggests community-based business models. If you believe that our future depends on merging social virtue and technology power, you should read this book.

Online Communities and Social Computing

Author : A. Ant Ozok
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642217966
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Online Communities and Social Computing written by A. Ant Ozok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and social computing, addressing the following major topics: on-line communities and intelligent agents in education and research; blogs, Wikis and Twitters; social computing in business and the enterprise; social computing in everyday life; information management in social computing.

Online Communities and Social Computing

Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540732578
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Online Communities and Social Computing written by Douglas Schuler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2007, held in Beijing, China, July 2007 in the framework of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007. It covers designing and developing on-line communities, as well as knowledge, collaboration, learning and local on-line communities.

Communities Work Together

Author : Tana Hensley
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1538352389
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Communities Work Together written by Tana Hensley and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer science is all around us, at school, at home, and in the community. This book gives readers the essential tools they need to understand the computer science concept of collaboration. Brilliant color photographs and accessible text will engage readers and allow them to connect deeply with the concept. The computer science topic is paired with an age-appropriate curricular topic to deepen readers’ learning experience and show how collaboration works in the real world. In this book, readers will learn how community members and local government work together to make change. This nonfiction title is paired with the fiction title We Work Together for Equality! (ISBN: 9781538352120). The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: Vocabulary, Background knowledge, Text-dependent questions, Whole class activities, and Independent activities.

Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Dasgupta, Subhasish
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1605669857
Total Pages : 2409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Dasgupta, Subhasish and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 2409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the growing and expanding phenomenon of human behavior, social constructs, and communication in online environments.

Communities in Cyberspace

Author : Peter Kollock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134654111
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Communities in Cyberspace written by Peter Kollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to real communities lived out in today's societies. Issues such as race, gender, power, economics and ethics in cyberspace are grouped under four main sections and discussed by leading experts: * identity * social order and control * community structure and dynamics * collective action. This topical new book displays how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the increasing power and range of cyberspace. As new societies and relationships are formed in this virtual landscape, we now have to consider the potential consequences this may have on our own community and societies. Clearly and concisely written with a wide range of international examples, this edited volume is an essential introduction to the sociology of the internet. It will appeal to students and professionals, and to those concerned about the changing relationships between information technology and a society which is fast becoming divided between those on-line and those not.