Networked Neighbourhoods (eBook)

The Connected Community in Context

Patrick Purcell (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2006
XI, 430 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-601-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The setting for this book is the networked community. The treatment of the subject matter is broad and interdisciplinary, with contributions from computer science, sociology, design, human factors and communication technology. The chapter contributors, drawn from across Europe and North America, offer a varied

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The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller understanding of the evolution of our societies. Telecommunications and information technologies modify the process of accessing and storing data and knowledge, and consequently they also modify our relationship with both social and historical m- ory. Our various virtual communities continue to expand on a planetary scale, and hence the neologism "e;Global Village"e;, while concurrently, their physical counterparts are progressively being contained within speci?c contexts and places, often referred to as a process of "e;localization"e;. And then, there is the unpredictable evolution of today's communication s- tems, an evolution that has been de?ned by Albert Einstein as the third bomb of the 20th century, after the atomic bomb and the demographic bomb. Therefore, as communication systems continue to develop, we face new scenarioswithimpreciseboundaries,thatleadtoendlessnewopportunities for establishing the relationship between social memory, community, and information systems. How can the knowledge process dynamic, together with the storing and transmitting of information, sounds, and images through digital devices, affect the communal memory and the way we both conceive of and create communities? We have at least three emerging paradigms that help us to understand the phenomena concerning the evolution of social memory linked with the recent diffusion of communication technologies.

Inhalt

List of Contributors A: NETWORKS & NEIGHBOURS
Chap 1 : 'Networked Neighbourhoods: A Purview' - Patrick Purcell B: CONNECTED COMMUNITY
Chap 2: 'Community Practice in the Network Society: Pathways Toward Civic Intelligence' - Peter Day and Douglas Schuler
Chap 3: 'Social Networks & the Nature of Communities' - Howard Rheingold
Chap 4: 'Community Informatics for Community Development: Hope or Hype?' - William Pitkin
Chap 5: 'Knowledge and the Local Community' - Alan McCluskey
Chap 6: 'Connected Memories in a Networked Digital Era : a moving paradigm' - Federico Casalegno
Chap 7: 'Community and Communication: A rounded perspective' - Jennifer Kayahara C: THE RESEARCH IMPETUS
Chap 8: 'Connected Lives: the project' - Barry Wellman and Bernie Hogan with Kristen Berg, Jeffrey Boase, Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Rochelle Côté, Jennifer Kayahara, Tracy L. M. Kennedy and Phuoc Tran
Chap 9: 'The Impact of the Internet on Local and Distant Social Ties' - A. Kavanaugh, T.T. Zin, M.B. Rosson and J.M. Carroll
Chap 10: 'The Magic Lounge: Connecting Island Communities Through Varied Communication Services' - Thomas Rist, Niels Ole Bernsen, Jean-Claude Martin
Chap 11: 'The Digital Hug: Enhancing Emotional Communication Through Creative Scenarios' - Verena Seibert Giller, Manfred Tscheligi, Reinhard Sefelin, Anu Kankainen
Chap 12: 'Ambient Intelligence: Human - Agent Interactions in a Networked Community' - Kostas Stathis, Oscar de Bruijn, Robert Spence, Patrick Purcell D: MEDIATED HUMAN COMMUNICATION
Chap 13: 'Beyond Communication: Human Connectedness as a Research Agenda' - Stefan Agamanolis
Chap 14: 'Presence: helping older people to engage with their local communities' - William Gaver, Jacob Beaver
Chap 15: 'Enhancing Community Communication: the role of interactive displays in comparable settings' - Antonietta Grasso, Frederic Roulland, Dave Snowdon
Chap 16: 'Serving Visitor Communities: AMediated Experience of the Arts' - Patrizia Marti, Gregory O’Hare, Michael O'Grady, Massimo Zancanaro, Elena Not, Alberto Bianchi, Mick O’Donnell

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 430 p. 136 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
• Schlagworte: Ambient Intelligence • Communal synergy • Communication • Communities • Community • Computer • digital • Digital Divide • Human-computer interfaces • Internet • Knowledge-based society • Networked neighbourhoods • Online citizen • Pervasive technologies • Social Cohesion • Social Informatics • Social Net • Social network • Social Networks • Technology • Ubiquity of service • Universal infromation access
• ISBN-10: 1-84628-601-8 / 1846286018
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-601-8 / 9781846286018