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.
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