Communities and Technologies: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C&T 2003

Hardcover, xii + 484 pages, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show short creases to corners, a small cosmetic puncture on the lower edge of rear panel. Published without a dust jacket. -- This volume contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of communities and technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, community support systems, digital cities, regional communities and the Internet, knowledge sharing and communities, civil communities, communities and education and social capital. As a result of a very quality-oriented review process, the work reflects some of the best of contemporary research and practice in the field of C&T. -- Contents: How Practice Matters: A Relational View of Knowledge Sharing / Carsten Osterlund & Paul Carlile; Structural Analysis of Communities of Practice: An Investigation of Job Title, Location and Management Intention / Joan T. Alatta; Episteme or Practice? Differentiated Communitarian Structures in a Biology Laboratory / Frédéric Créplet; We Can See You: A Study of Communities' Invisible People through ReachOut / Vladimir Soroka; Email as Spectroscopy : Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations / Joshua R. Tyler; Multimedia Fliers: Information Sharing with Digital Community Bulletin Boards / Elizabeth F. Churchill; Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Communities / Bart van den Hooff; Uses of Information Sources in an Internet-Era Firm: Online and Offline / Anabel Quan Haase & Joseph Cothrel; Communities and Other Social Structures for Knowledge Sharing: A Case Study in an Internet Consultancy Company / Inkeri Ruuska & Matti Vartiainen; Intranets and Local Community: 'Yes, an intranet is all very well, but do we still get free beer and barbeque?' / Michael Arnold; Learning and Collaboration across Generations in a Community / Mary Beth Rosson & John M. Carroll; The African Dream: A Pan-African E-Community Project / Denise Biggs & Carol Purnell; The Role of Social Capital in Regional Technological Innovation: Seeing both the Wood and the Trees / Louise Tamaschke; Weak Ties in Networked Communities / Andrea Kavanaugh; A Bayesian Computational Model of Social Capital in Virtual Communities / Ben Kei Daniel; I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation / Mark S. Ackerman; Role of Knowledge Artifacts in Innovation Management: The Case of a Chemical Compound Designer CoP / Stefania Bandini; Supporting an Experiment of a Community Support System: Community Analysis and Maintenance Functions in the Public Opinion Channel / Tomohiro Fukuhara; Patients' Online Communities Experiences of Emergent Swedish Self-Help on the Internet / Ulrika Josefsson; When Users Push Back: Oppositional New Media and Community / Leah A. Lievrouw; Babel in the International Café: A Respectful Critique / Beverly Trayner; Synchronizing Asynchronous Collaborative Learners / Johan Lundin; Community Support in Universities: The Drehscheibe Project / Michael Koch; Adding Connectivity and Losing Context with ICT: Contrasting Learning Situations from a Community of Practice Perspective / Patricia Arnold & John D. Smith.…