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What is Community Informatics (and why Does it Matter)?

Author : Michael Gurstein
Publisher : Polimetrica s.a.s.
ISBN 13 : 8876990976
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Community Informatics (and why Does it Matter)? by : Michael Gurstein

Download or read book What is Community Informatics (and why Does it Matter)? written by Michael Gurstein and published by Polimetrica s.a.s.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics (CI) is the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives. CI goes beyond the "Digital Divide" to making ICT access usable and useful to excluded populations and communities for local economic development, social justice, and political empowerment. CI approaches ICTs from a "community" perspective and develops strategies and techniques for managing their use by communities both virtual and physical including the variety of Community Networking applications. CI assumes that both communities have characteristics, requirements, and opportunities that require different strategies for ICT intervention and development from individual access and use. Also, CI addresses ICT use in Developing Countries as well as among the poor, the marginalized, the elderly, or those living in remote locations in Developed Countries. CI is of interest both to ICT practitioners and academic researchers and addresses the connections between the policy and pragmatic issues arising from the tens of thousands of Community Networks, Community Technology Centres, Telecentres, Community Communications Centres, and Telecottages globally along with the rapidly emerging field of electronically based virtual "communities."

Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions

Author : Stewart Marshall
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 9781591401322
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions written by Stewart Marshall and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many international settings, regional economies are declining resulting in lowered opportunities for these communities. This result attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies, and increases social, health, economic and sustainability problems. Community informatics research, education and practice is an emerging area in many countries, which seeks to address these issues. The primary objective of Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions is to provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of Community Informatics to transform regions. This book embraces an integrative cross-sectoral approach in the use of Community Informatics to increase both social and cultural capital as a means to increased sustainability for regional communities.

Community Informatics

Author : Dave Eagle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134736304
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Informatics by : Dave Eagle

Download or read book Community Informatics written by Dave Eagle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together some leading exponents of CI around the world and critically evaluates their experiences.

Socio-informatics

Author : Volker Wulf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198733240
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Socio-informatics written by Volker Wulf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how computer systems might be designed to serve their users rather better. It deals with how to study the natural behaviour of users to see how computer systems might best help them, and how one might also involve them in the design of computer systems that will assist them in their everyday practices.

Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies

Author : Gurstein, Michael
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1930708491
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies by : Gurstein, Michael

Download or read book Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies written by Gurstein, Michael and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the millennium are studied.

Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems

Author : Pierre-Léonard Harvey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319653733
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems by : Pierre-Léonard Harvey

Download or read book Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems written by Pierre-Léonard Harvey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows social systems researchers and practitioners to recognize their synergistic roles in the praxis process to shape their future through social innovation projects. This transdisciplinary text provides potential students and practitioners fundamental concepts and tools for such design. It offers resources from the Pragmatic and Systemic philosophy of science for the co-construction of social architectures and infrastructures, and multi-aspectual design methodologies by which government, organizations and civil society can learn to ethically co-design common ground. This approach provides complementary and common patterns from known methods, models, and theories of social systems interventions that could support a generic framing of large scale sociotechnical systems: digital social innovation ecosystem, living Labs, Fab Labs, enterprise collaborative networks. There will be a particular focus on understanding and addressing the dimensions that make people from different communities of practice able to communicate and collaborate through multiple digital media, design platforms, worldviews and modeling approaches.

Communicating in the Information Society

Author : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Publisher : Geneva : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicating in the Information Society written by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and published by Geneva : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a collection of essays which discuss social perspectives on developments in information technology, and has been produced by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development to mark the first UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Topics discussed include: gender issues in the information society; community informatics; media developments and democratisation.

Making Sense of Nature

Author : Noel Castree
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134613903
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Nature written by Noel Castree and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our dependence on various communities allowing our thoughts, sentiments and activities to be unduly governed by others? Making Sense of Nature shows that what we call ‘nature’ is made sense of for us in ways that make it central to social order, social change and social dissent. By utilising insights and extended examples from anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, philosophy, politics, sociology, science studies, this interdisciplinary text asks whether we can better make sense of nature for ourselves, and thus participate more meaningfully in momentous decisions about the future of life – human and non-human – on the planet. This book shows how ‘nature’ can be made sense of without presuming its naturalness. The challenge is not so much to rid ourselves of the idea of nature and its ‘collateral concepts’ (such as genes) but instead, we need to be more alert to how, why and with what effects ideas about ‘nature’ get fashioned and deployed in specific situations. Among other things, the book deals with science and scientists, the mass media and journalists, ecotourism, literature and cinema, environmentalists, advertising and big business. This innovative text contains numerous case studies and examples from daily life to put theory and subject matter into context, as well as study tasks, a glossary and suggested further reading. The case studies cover a range of topics, range from forestry in Canada and Guinea, to bestiality in Washington State, to how human genetics is reported in Western newspapers, to participatory science experiments in the UK. Making Sense of Nature will empower readers from a wide range of fields across the social sciences, humanities and physical sciences.

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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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies by : Dasgupta, Subhasish

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.

Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework (Festschrift in honor of Gunilla Bradley)

Author : Haftor, Darek
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1609600592
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework (Festschrift in honor of Gunilla Bradley) written by Haftor, Darek and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework addresses the extensive area of effects of ICT on human beings and the interaction between ICT, individuals, organizations, and society. This premier reference source features contributions from over 45 distinguished researchers from around the world, each presenting high quality research on Social Informatics, Human Computer Interaction, Organizational Behavior, and Macro-ergonomics. This unique publication is perfect for students, teachers, researchers, engineers, practitioners, managers, policy-makers, and media alike.

Communities in Action

Author : Graeme Johanson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810487
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Communities in Action written by Graeme Johanson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICTs have become a very powerful community resource, viewed by many authors in this volume as two-way mechanisms, facilitating the perpetuation of and reflecting esteemed community values. The contents of this volume make it clear that ICTs have a huge capacity for incorporation into different forms of community action, including social change, community learning, community connection, and community development. Through studying the papers in this volume, readers can learn about multiple forms of ICTs and action and how action is understood, and improve their grasp of the complexities of social-technical relations. The chapters in this volume began life as papers at the Conference on ’Community Informatics – prospects for communities and action’ in 2007, the fourth successful community informatics conference held at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy. This book creates a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and possible solutions to address the difficulties in deploying ICT in many contexts, and will be of interest to all researchers and practioners who engage with ICT, particularly those in the community and developmental informatics field.

Handbook of Research on New Literacies

Author : Julie Coiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136650865
Total Pages : 1386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on New Literacies written by Julie Coiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today — literacy and technology — this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and interdisciplinary research pertaining to new literacies. Reviews of research are organized into six sections: Methodologies Knowledge and Inquiry Communication Popular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday Literacies Instructional Practices and Assessment Multiple Perspectives on New Literacies Research FEATURES Brings together a diverse international team of editors and chapter authors Provides an extensive collection of research reviews in a critical area of educational research Makes visible the multiple perspectives and theoretical frames that currently drive work in new literacies Establishes important space for the emerging field of new literacies research Includes a unique Commentary section: The final section of the Handbook reprints five central research studies. Each is reviewed by two prominent researchers from their individual, and different, theoretical position. This provides the field with a sense of how diverse lenses can be brought to bear on research as well as the benefits that accrue from doing so. It also provides models of critical review for new scholars and demonstrates how one might bring multiple perspectives to the study of an area as complex as new literacies research. The Handbook of Research on New Literacies is intended for the literacy research community, broadly conceived, including scholars and students from the traditional reading and writing research communities in education and educational psychology as well as those from information science, cognitive science, psychology, sociolinguistics, computer mediated communication, and other related areas that find literacy to be an important area of investigation.

How Like a Leaf

Author : Donna Haraway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113668669X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book How Like a Leaf written by Donna Haraway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.

The Promise of Access

Author : Daniel Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262363341
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Access written by Daniel Greene and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on fieldwork at three distinct sites in Washington, DC, this book finds that the persistent problem of poverty is often framed as a problem of technology"--

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops

Author : Zahir Tari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540482695
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops written by Zahir Tari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNCS 4277/4278 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14 international workshops held as part of OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006. The 191 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 493 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 26 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2006 main conferences.

The Neighborhood in the Internet

Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317571525
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Neighborhood in the Internet written by John M. Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Experience-centered Design

Author : Peter Wright
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608450449
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Experience-centered Design written by Peter Wright and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience-centered design, experience-based design, experience design, designing for experience, user experience design. All of these terms have emerged and gained acceptance in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design relatively recently. In this book, we set out our understanding of experience-centered design as a humanistic approach to designing digital technologies and media that enhance lived experience. The book is divided into three sections. In Section 1, we outline the historical origins and basic concepts that led into and flow out from our understanding of experience as the heart of people's interactions with digital technology. In Section 2, we describe three examples of experience-centered projects and use them to illustrate and explain our dialogical approach. In Section 3, we recapitulate some of the main ideas and themes of the book and discuss the potential of experience-centered design to continue the humanist agenda by giving a voice to those who might otherwise be excluded from design and by creating opportunities for people to enrich their lived experience with and through technology.